Upside Down

N.R. Walker

Copyright

Cover Art: N.R. Walker & SJ York

Editor: Boho Edits

Publisher: BlueHeart Press

Upside Down © 2019 N.R. Walker

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Intended for an 18+ audience only. This book contains material that maybe offensive to some and is intended for a mature, adult audience. It contains graphic language, and adult situations.

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

The Next Weekend

Three Years Later

About the Author

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Blurb

Jordan O’Neill isn’t a fan of labels, considering he has a few. Gay, geek, librarian, socially awkward, a nervous rambler, an introvert, an outsider. The last thing he needs is one more. But when he realises adding the label asexual might explain a lot, it turns his world upside down.

Hennessy Lang moved to Surry Hills after splitting with his boyfriend. His being asexual had seen the end of a lot of his romances, but he’s determined to stay true to himself. Leaving his North Shore support group behind, he starts his own in Surry Hills, where he meets first-time-attendee Jordan.

A little bewildered and scared, but completely adorable, Hennessy is struck by this guy who’s trying to find where he belongs. Maybe Hennessy can convince Jordan that his world hasn’t been turned upside down at all, but maybe it’s now—for the first time in his life—the right way up.

Upside Down

Chapter One

Jordan O’Neill

Asexuality is defined by the absence of something.

I read the line again, and another time for good measure, then I mumbled it to myself out loud. “Asexuality is defined by the absence of something.”

I squinted at the screen. “Oh, you can fuck right off,” I muttered and looked up, directly into the horrified face of a customer. She had those lines above her top lip, like she’d spent a good portion of her sixty-something years scowling. It made her mouth look like a cat’s butthole. Her coral-coloured lipstick bled into the lines around her mouth, and I had to make myself not stare. And now not think of cats and their puckered, coral-coloured buttholes. So gross. “Oh, not you, obviously. I wasn’t saying that to you. I happen to like cats. Not their buttholes, necessarily, I was just…”