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Stories Between Us Anthology
by Stories Between Us Anthology
Stories Between Us Anthology is home to Black Queer Audio dramas and short stories for and about Black Gay men.These are late-night stories. Stories about desire. Stories about love that live in the silence. About the double lives people keep, and the connections that happen in unexpected places.
Episodes
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REPLAY: "Firehouse 44" | A Black Gay Love Story Born in Fire and Tested by a Hurricane
Owen Cole built his life around control around duty, around being the man everyone else could lean on. He became the firefighter others trusted with their lives because he never trusted anyone with his heart. Not after the man he loved died in a kitchen fire. Then came Griffin Walker. The younger...
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REPLAY: The Man Next Door Has a Secret DL Life (Volume 1 Now Available on Amazon Kindle)
The Man Next Door Has a Secret DL Life follows a married man hiding a secret life and the emotional complications that come with keeping that part of himself hidden. This story explores secrecy, desire, betrayal, vulnerability, and the complicated reality of living on the Down Low. 📖 NOW…
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Two Gay Dads: ALL 6 Chapters | Black Gay Love, Adoption, and Family | For Better or For Worse
Every chapter of For Better or Worse, back to back - the wedding, the baby on the doorstep, the custody fight, the ruling, and the ending that makes it all worth it. This is the complete short story: Martin and Carl, two Black, Gay, newly married men, thrown into parenthood days after their…
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Two Gay Dads Lose A Daughter, Then Get A Second Chance At Fatherhood | For Better or Worse Ep. 6 Final Episode
They lost the custody case. Weeks later, a phone call changes everything again - and this time, nothing can take it away. In this final episode of For Better or Worse, Martin and Carl grieve, fight, and find their way back to each other before Denise calls with a newborn boy and a incontestable...
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Custody Returned to the Birth Mother | Two Husbands Left in Silence | For Better or Worse Ep. 5
The custody petition finally has a date set for a courtroom. Two newlywed men. One birth mother. Mariah takes the stand first, and for the first time in this story, she tells exactly why she gave her daughter away. Martin testifies next, honest in a way that costs him something with his own...
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A Mothers Plea, Gay Married Dads, and the Daughter They Don't Want To Lose | Audio Drama | For Better or Worse Ep. 4
Mariah stood fifteen feet away with her hands shaking, she had been watching Martin and Carl for weeks. Six weeks into fatherhood, Martin and Carl finally have a routine - Saturday mornings in the park, coffee, a stroller, a life that's starting to feel normal. Then Amara's birth mother appears…
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The Baby Cried Before They Could Finish, a Cousin Who Clocks Their Tension, and What the Vows Didn't Cover | Black Gay Romance Audio Drama | For Better or Worse Ep. 3
They still haven't said sorry. That doesn't stop them from reaching for each other with their bodies until the baby, the fight, and a case workers report from the state all land in the same afternoon. Martin and Carl still haven't talked about the fight that broke their first week of marriage…
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A Screaming Baby, a Homophobic Caseworker, and Their First Real Married Fight | Gay Audio Story | For Better or Worse Ep. 2
One diaper disaster. One state caseworker with a clipboard and an agenda. One fight neither of them saw coming four days into a marriage. Martin and Carl are three a.m. deep into their first night with a newborn, and the house has already turned into chaos: bottles, backward onesies, a couch...
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Newlywed Bliss and A Baby That Changes Everything | Gay Audio Story | For Better or Worse Ep. 1
Martin and Carl are three weeks married and still can't keep their hands off each other - until a knock at the door turns their Sunday morning into something neither of them planned for. A former client. A newborn. Seventy-two hours to decide the rest of their lives. Newlyweds Martin and Carl...
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Trucker Confessions | All 7 Chapters: He Ran From Family & Love Until Ghost Caught Him
Tre never stayed anywhere for long, until a stranded trucker named Ghost showed up with a set of jumper cables and refused to stay a one-night stand. Over time, a man who spent six years driving away from everybody had to face the family he has been avoiding and the fear he had built his whole…
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Trucker Confessions | Final Chapter: He Chose Love Over the Open Road [Gay Mini Series]
Six episodes ago, Tre told y'all he doesn't do phone numbers, doesn't do 'so what are we.' Tonight he eats every one of those words. Ghost lays out a plan neither one of them saw coming, one that lets them build something real without either man giving up the road. And for the first time in his...
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Trucker Confessions | Episode 6: He Finally Told Me His Story [Gay Mini Series]
Tre breaks his own rule and goes looking for somebody for the first time in his life. What he finds, at a truck stop outside Shreveport, is the story behind the name Ghost, and the first time either of them lets their guard all the way down.
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Trucker Confessions | Episode 5: My Father Almost Told Me He Accepts My Sexuality | The Family FaceTime Call | Gay Audio Story
A surprise family FaceTime call. A father who gets right up to the edge of saying something real, and a dropped phone signal that interrupts the moment. Tre's phone lights up with his whole family crammed into four little boxes on a screen, everybody performing togetherness while nobody actually...
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Trucker Confessions | Episode 4: Boiling Point — The Heat Made Us Do It | Gay Audio Story
A jackknifed rig on a heat-blasted highway. A stranger who needs help. And the one man Tre can't stop running into, showing up right when he least expects him. Tre and Ghost pull a stranded trucker out of trouble together, and what happens after, in a cab with the AC running and the heat still...
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Trucker Confessions | Episode 3: The Family That Raised Me Without Ever Really Knowing Me | Gay Audio Story
Tre doesn't go home often. This time he doesn't have a choice - his parents are selling the house, and his baby brother leaves for college in nine days. What's waiting for him is love that never quite says the right words out loud, and one secret his little brother wasn't supposed to tell him....
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Trucker Confessions | Episode 2: A Broken Trailer, A Diner Bathroom Hookup, and The Man Tre Can't Outrun | Gay Audio Story
Tre thought Ghost was a one-night thing. Dead battery, bad pickup line, gone by sunrise, that was the deal. Then a busted trailer strands him in the one town he actually knows, and Ghost walks through the diner door like he was always going to show up. Tre's spent his whole life making sure…
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Trucker Confessions | Episode 1: Meet Tre – The Trucker Who Never Stays
Tre don't do phone numbers. Tre don't do feelings. Then his rig broke down on I-40 and a man named Ghost showed up with jumper cables and Tre broke the one rule he swore he'd never break.
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America's First Black Gay President | Full Season 1 | Chapters 1-4 | Complete Audio Drama
He signed a healthcare bill that gives thirty million Americans. He's the first openly Black Gay president in history. And tonight, behind the ceremony, his marriage is holding secrets that might outlast his presidency. ------------------------------- THE FIRST BLACK GAY PRESIDENT Full Season 1 |...
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First Black Gay President Signs Healthcare Bill...His Husband Finds Out About The Affair | Chp.4
President DeAndre signed the most important healthcare bill of his presidency this morning. By midnight, his marriage is back on solid ground. THE FIRST BLACK GAY PRESIDENT —Chapter 4: Season 1 Finale | Black Queer Audio Drama President DeAndre Whitfield wakes up the morning of the biggest…
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Trapped in the Walk-In Fridge: A Gay Soul Food Romance | Audio Story About Family, and Community
Curtis inherited his parents’ soul food restaurant — and the weight of keeping it alive. On the busiest Sunday of the year, between a packed dining room, a graduation party, and a table of church ladies who see everything, a new server named Josh keeps pulling his focus in ways he can’t afford...
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The DL Chronicles Marathon: 2 Hours of The Married Man Next Door & His Secret Double Life
Binge the full DL Chronicles experience in one 2-hour marathon. This episode follows The Married Man Next Door and the shocking double life he’s been hiding. A story filled with secrecy, emotional twists, and the complicated reality of living on the DL. Perfect for: New listeners wanting the full...
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He Put His Mouth On It In The Oval Closet | First Black Gay President Ch. 3
What happens in the closet stays in the closet. Unless your father-in-law is already knocking. In Chapter 3 of "The First Black Gay President" President DeAndre and First Gentleman Gabriel start their morning exactly the way the President intended. Then Marcus Whitfield Sr. shows up unannounced....
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Gitty Up, Gitty Up | Body Rolls at the Rodeo... Black Cowboys Fall Into Unspoken Love (Teaser)
Two Black cowboys win the rodeo like they always do…but tonight, something deepens under the Louisiana moon. A muddy dance floor, late-night lust, and a chemistry they’ve been running from since childhood. If you liked this teaser, there are 100+ full stories available. They’re all about Black…
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A Love Letter to My Barber | Whispers From the Barber Chair | A Black Gay Poem
This poem is a quiet reflection on the subtle romance and emotional tension that can exist between a man and his barber. Set in the intimate space of a barbershop, the poem explores connection, attraction, and the unspoken feelings that live in everyday moments...especially in the closeness of a...
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Chapter 2: The First Black Gay President | Ambushed At Black Church & Both Men Want Someone Else
In chapter 2 we go back to the beginning. Chicago. Election Night. Confetti on the floor and eleven screens flashing WHITFIELD WINS. DeAndre and Gabriel made a promise to each other that night before the world came crashing in. Four years later, that promise is being tested from every direction....
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America's First Black Gay President [Chapter 1 ] Black Gay Love In The Oval Office & A Supreme Court Crisis
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/stories.between.us.anthology President DeAndre Whitfield is eleven months from the end of his presidency and one vote away from passing the American Covenant Act: the most sweeping healthcare legislation since the New Deal. When Supreme Court Justice Elaine Hartwell…
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Chapter 8: DL Husband Bends Over His Secret Boyfriend | Caught By His Best Friend | Married DL Man Series Finale
Terry thought the hardest part of being Down Low was keeping the secret. He was wrong. The hardest part is the Saturday morning when every single secret in the house decides to come home at the same time. Chapter 8 of The Married Man Next Door Has a Secret DL Life Chronicles is the series finale…
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Two Down Low Basketball Coaches and the Bottom They Shared | Married DL Man Chronicles | Chapter 7
Terry is a high school basketball coach with a double life he's spent years protecting — and in Chapter 7 of The Married Man Next Door Has a Secret DL Life Chronicles, the two sides of that life finally end up in the same room. When Game 1 puts him face to face with a rival head coach who knows...
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Mini Episode: The Making Of A Down Low Man | The Married DL Man Chronicles | Chapter 6.5
Terry has been carrying his whole life in his chest for twenty years, and in this mini episode of The Married Man Next Door Has a Secret DL Life Chronicles, it finally comes out. Set during the four weeks after the Chapter 6 dinner, this intimate solo episode follows Terry through the memories…
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He Was DL, She Was Gay, The Baby Ain't His, And Now We All Ended Up In A Polycule [Chapter 6]
The Man Next Door And His Secret DL Life Chronicles — The Whole House Was Gay What started as one man scrolling a cam site on a quiet Thursday night somehow became the most complicated situationship on the block — and we are not apologizing for any of it. In this chapter of The Man Next Door Has…
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Sweet on You: A Black Gay Harlem Romance About Two Men, One Piano, and a Love They Had to Hide | Short Story
Harlem, 1928. The Jazz Age is alive and electric, and Everett is the most celebrated Black bandleader in New York — immaculate suits, nine men band, and a reputation built on fifteen years of never letting the armor slip. He has everything the world can see and almost nothing it cannot. Then Rue...
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A Gay Friends Trip to Saint Caldera That Brought Them Closer
Five longtime friends take a luxury trip to a private island called Saint Caldera, expecting a week of parties, freedom, and the kind of joy that only comes from chosen family. Ronan, Sullivan, Sterling, Lennox, and Imani have spent years traveling together, falling into the same familiar rhythms...
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Two Years Later He Saw His Ex Again | A Black Queer Mini Story
Isaiah Carter left the man he loved because he believed staying would ruin Darius Cole’s future. Two years later, they see each other again for the first time outside a crowded nightclub. Old feelings resurface. Hard truths are spoken. And in one brief moment, both men realize the love they tried...
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Saints & Sinners – The Night the Club Burned: Sex, Power & Revenge [Part 3]]
Saints & Sinners – Part Three The campaign has begun. The lies are tightening. And the fire that was once buried is ready to rise. As Chief Warren Cole publicly launches his mayoral bid inside Saints & Sinners, a single photograph threatens to unravel everything he’s built. Detective Garrett…
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Saints & Sinners – A Black Queer Crime Thriller: [Part Two] – Secrets Taste Better After Midnight
The police raid on Saints & Sinners Night Club was never about crime. It was about control. In this episode of Saints & Sinners – A Black Queer Crime Thriller, Detective Garrett uncovers a political scheme hiding behind flashing lights and press statements. A secret black book links the club to...
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Saints & Sinners – A Black Queer Crime Thriller [Part One]
Saints & Sinners – A Black Queer Crime Thriller: Part One On opening night at Saints & Sinners, a rising Black queer nightclub, a man collapses under the lights and never gets back up. Detective Garrett arrives expecting a routine overdose. What he finds instead is a club that reopened too…
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A Black Gay Love Triangle, Betrayal, and the Cost of Wanting More
Calvin built a life people depended on — the host, the protector, the man who kept his Black gay chosen family grounded. Beside him was Lance, charming and beloved, the partner who made them feel unbreakable. And then there was Reuben, the friend who stayed late, watched closely, and wanted more...
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They Met At A Resort and Shared Nights Of Passion | Black Gay Mini Story
Zane is newly laid off and unsure of what comes next. Kevin is recently divorced and trying not to disrupt the life he’s rebuilt. They meet at a wellness retreat in Mexico—by accident, on a quiet morning that changes everything. What starts as a vacation connection deepens into something neither...
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He Was My Lieutenant — Falling for Him Was the Risk | Black Gay Romance
Owen Cole has spent his life being the man everyone else depends on. A firefighter shaped by loss, discipline, and duty, Owen learned early how to survive by staying useful and silent—especially after the man he loved died in a fire he could not stop. Griffin Walker was never supposed to matter....
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My Best Friend Didn’t Know I Was Falling for Her Brother (Parts 1-2)
When a family crisis pulls Theo and his sister’s best friend back under the same roof, old familiarity turns into something harder to ignore. Grief makes the house quiet. Nights stretch long. Boundaries blur. Theo has spent his life being the dependable one holding everything together, asking…
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We Weren’t Supposed to Fall in Love While His Mother Was Sick (PART 1)
Theo never thought of himself as lonely. Just responsible. Nolan came to help. He was Marisa’s best friend. The one who always showed up. The one who knew how to sit in silence without trying to fix it. It wasn’t supposed to become late nights in the kitchen. Shared meals no one had the appetite…
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Mega Church Pastor Paid a Male Escort for One Night… But What He Asked For Changed Him Forever
Pastor Daniel is trusted by thousands—but known by no one. At night, he steps into a private arrangement with Thomas, an escort who offers something prayer no longer does: structure, silence, and consent. What begins as submission becomes balance. What begins as secrecy begins to change the man...
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Two Black Astronauts Get Intimate in Space | A Short Queer Love Story
This intimate queer audio short story follows two Black astronauts whose professional bond deepens into something quietly life-changing during a mission in orbit. With Earth far below and time running out, they find closeness, honesty, and desire in a place where gravity loosens and nothing is...
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Black Gay Barbershop Stories About Desire, Love and Intimacy | A Collection of Stories
This episode features a collection of stories set in and around a barbershop, where routine visits turn into moments of emotional closeness, curiosity, and attraction. Each story focuses on men navigating interest, restraint, and connection in a space that feels familiar, masculine, and quietly...
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Two Country Men Who Chose Each Other — A Black Queer Short Story About Being Held
Apollo never planned to stay anywhere long. Luke never planned to leave at all. Set against the quiet rhythm of farm life, this short story follows two Black men whose connection grows through work, proximity, and moments of unexpected tenderness. What begins as shared labor becomes something...
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“I Didn’t Plan to Ask Him This” — A Short Story About What Happened After My Boyfriend Taught Me How to Douche
Dallas never questioned his role in the relationship. He was the top. The confident one. The man who didn’t need instructions—or conversations that made things uncomfortable. Until a romantic trip forces him to admit that there’s something he wants. And the hardest part isn’t the desire. It’s...
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He Covered the Scandal — Then the Client Slept With His Man | A Gay Erotic Drama
Marcus knew how to manage crises. Julian knew how to hold people together. They met somewhere in between—where love felt possible, but presence felt conditional. As Marcus disappeared deeper into control and professional distance, Julian carried the quiet weight of waiting. When a former client...
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAZE: He Told His Family I Was Just a Roommate — Then Got Down on One Knee
Zachary brought Jefferey home for Christmas… as his “roommate.” But small towns don’t play along for long. A sweet, Black gay holiday love story about family, fear, and finally choosing each other in the snow. Proposals, secrets, and holiday magic collide in Home for the Holidaze. Linktree:...
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They’d Been Together 5 Years — Their Anniversary Walk Home Changed Everything
Marlon and Sean didn’t go out that night. They didn’t need to. Five years together. No rings. No big declarations. Just a quiet anniversary dinner at the same hole-in-the-wall spot where everything started. The kind of place that reminds you who you were before life got heavy and love got…
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He Went Out Alone — And Woke Up in Another Man’s Bed With His Boyfriend Standing There (Short Story)
Tyree didn’t plan on going out that night. He had a good life, a solid job, and friends who loved him—even if they were all paired off now. When the group chat invited him along as the third wheel, something shifted. Instead of staying in, Tyree chose himself. What starts as a solo night out…
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Stories Between Us Anthology is home to Black Queer Audio dramas and short stories for and about Black Gay men.These are late-night stories. Stories about desire. Stories about love that live in the silence. About the double lives people keep, and the connections that happen in unexpected places.
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