Daddy's Boy

When Joshua goes home to visit his parents, he's ready for an awkward weekend avoiding his step-dad, who hasn't been the same toward Josh since Josh came out of the closet two years ago.

But when a near death experience sends Josh's step-dad home early from a fishing trip, shaken and reconsidering life, Josh learns something about the old man: once upon a time, his step-dad had slept with a guy...and liked it. It was his step-dad's own issues with sexuality that had made him take such a hard line on Josh.

Now, he wants to make up for that mistake by giving Josh a crash-course in fatherly love...

This short story is roughly 4,400 words