Desert Dropping
Nov 12, 2005
When his mother dies, 16-year-old Rory Norick is forced to live with the father he has never known or wanted to know. He leaved his home in Nevada behind and moves to the Arizona desert. The fact that Rory is gay doesn’t make him any happier about going to live with strangers.
Like all DomLuka’s stories, it’s the characters that make Desert Dropping so appealing.
The Ordinary Us
Nov 8, 2005
My favourite of the three stories I’ve read by DomLuka.
This is the story of seventeen-year-old Quinn Moore. He has a loving family, good friends and a girlfriend he’s deemed as perfect. Quinn’s also gay, not that he’s about to admit it. He likes things just the way they are, thank you. But then he meets Jude Landon, and everything in Quinn’s comfortable world is turned upside down.
Quinn is a really great character. I think I like him so much because he’s very human; he’s always panicking and doing silly things, and making his life a lot more complicated than it needs to be.
The Log Way
Jun 18, 2005
There are so many original slash stories out there, and so few of them are any good. Luckily, DomLuka’s The Log Way is one of those few.
Owen Dovan hasn’t seen either of his two older brothers in two years, but when their father attacks him for being gay and puts him in the hospital, he moves in with them. After being outed at his last school, Owen has a chance to start over in a new town.
I really liked this story, even though the ending wasn’t quite as good as I was expecting. There were a few things that were never really resolved, but they mostly involved minor characters.
Update: It looks as though DomLuka is starting a spinoff of this story, which will resolve some of the threads that were left hanging. It won’t be posted until he has a few chapters written, but it is coming.