Time to Think

by Rigby Taylor

Overview

Time To Think is an amusing, thoughtful and sexy collection of eight short tales about the human condition—and how some gays cope.

Sebastian and Reginald have a close encounter with visiting evangelists.

Robert is so influenced by his sexy cousin and a book he read he does something foolish that has disastrous consequences.

An unwelcome visiting bore is startled into fearful flight by his host’s extempore philosophising.

To his parents slightly shocked surprise, a young man pursuing his eccentric pleasures is misunderstood by a lusty divorcee, and is only extricated from self-harm by discovering and accepting the rest of his character.

The utter boredom of Charlie’s life in a Nursing Home has been alleviated by the arrival of Mal… but there are problems to be solved.

In the not too distant future, an accidentally irradiated young man sires a very strange young child who teams up with his lover, an artificial insemination doctor to create a new species of human… Are they the forerunners of a brave new world? Or is it too late?

A middle-aged man has a run in with his obnoxious nephew over a singing cup which caused him great agony of spirit when he was a student.

After a shy youth is talked into spending a weekend with an older man, he develops a taste for sex and decides to seduce his Maths teacher; with amusing consequences.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940032859352
Publisher:	Rigby Taylor
Publication date:	11/08/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	679,744
File size:	371 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

I live with my partner as naturally as possible in today’s world, on several forested acres in sub-tropical Queensland.
My first twenty-four years on this planet are recorded in a lighthearted memoir, Dancing Bare, in which my doings in nineteen sixties London, Paris, Europe and North Africa are recalled.
I write the sort of books I like to read— stories that are reasonably fast-paced, with sufficient but minimal description that doesn’t interrupt the unfolding plot, which is clear and about something more than just action. A bit if philosophising and the occasional polemic always please me. I reckon fictional characters should be believable, not ‘supermen’, just slightly larger than life. I want to be unaware I’m reading as I’m transported to a more interesting reality where there are at least a couple of people I can relate to. I don’t mind reading about sexual activity if it’s part of the plot and demonstrates character, but graphic sex bores me witless. I am disappointed that most so-called ‘gay’ novels seem to be mere excuses for empty erotica.
I can’t see the point in having ‘heroes’ who are unable to escape the compromises, petty disagreements, hopes, disappointments, mistakes, regrets, and pointless ‘pleasures’ that make up most people’s lives. We all know what that’s like. My ‘heroes’ live in that world, but face their predicaments stoutly, inspiring us lesser mortals to follow their example and strive with a little more perseverance to attain our goals.
But what goals? I despair at otherwise excellent books in which everyone accepts the grossly wasteful consumerism of everyday life as not only normal but desirable. I like to read and write about people who genuinely understand that more than enough is too much. Who value what is truly valuable. I realise I'm sometimes guilty of a bit of tub-thumping, but I like that in other writers because without strong convictions a writer has little to offer apart from amusement.
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