Shore Leave

Alex Holden, a forty-one-year-old body builder and gym owner, and Terry Duncan, a twenty-seven-year-old musical theater dancer, have been a committed, cohabiting couple in San Diego for eight years. They still consider themselves a committed couple and have no wish to change their arrangement or upset their partner. But, although they go through the routines of servicing each other, the spark of what once had been a bonfire relationship now seems to ignite between them only when the U.S. naval fleet is in for shore leave. Neither of them speak of the correlation between those two conditions, but each holds a secret on what it means to them for the fleet to be in for shore leave.