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<\/p>\nThis is wide release day for my new second-chances novella “Overdue Changes”; after a month-long freebie release, this story of two men whose love story came to a crashing halt, and who regret it, is up for sale on all vendors. <\/p>\n
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Related to the “Changes” hockey series, this is a stand-alone with a hockey player late in his never-stellar career and a retired NFL star. A few old friends have cameos.<\/p>\n
Find it here : https:\/\/books2read.com\/OverdueChangesKaje<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Logan<\/i><\/p>\n A year ago, I made a choice. A bad choice. Out of the blue, I got a shot at moving up from the ECHL to the AHL, probably my last shot at a higher hockey league at age 33. Except at the same moment, my boyfriend came out publicly. I was supposed to be at his side, but professional hockey still wasn’t welcoming to gay men, despite a couple of out players. I decided I had to pick between the career I’d been working for all my life, and my boyfriend. I didn’t choose Miles. Now, a year later, I know what a fool I was, but Miles is engaged to a woman and there’s no way back for us.<\/p>\n Miles<\/i><\/p>\n I don’t regret coming out. I can’t, given how many kids, and adults too, have contacted me to say what it meant to them to have even a retired pro-football player stand up as a gay man. I wish I’d come out earlier, when I was active in the NFL and could’ve been more of a role model, but I’m not sorry I did it now. My only regret is that somehow, in the stresses of that moment, I lost the man I loved. Logan froze me out, I was angry, and\u2026 we said things we couldn’t take back. Now I’m living my out gay life, and that’s important, but I miss Logan. Taking care of my friend Rachel’s fianc\u00e9e, acting as her beard till she can get away from her father, makes me feel useful, but I can’t help wishing it’d been Logan at my side in those society photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is wide release day for my new second-chances novella “Overdue Changes”; after a month-long freebie release, this story of two men whose love story came to a crashing halt, and who regret it, is up for sale on all vendors. Related to the “Changes” hockey series, this is a stand-alone with a hockey player late in his never-stellar career and a retired NFL star. A few old friends have cameos. Find it here : … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,65],"tags":[68,36,37,17,70],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-releases","category-contemporary","category-novella","tag-68","tag-contemporary","tag-novella","tag-release","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}