When Gus’s car breaks down along a deserted country road, what else can he do but get naked? And go looking for help, which he finds in the most unexpected of places. Keep your eyes opened locked; you won’t want to miss a moment of this steamy poolside romantic encounter.
NOTE: This story appears in Rob Rosen's best-selling collection, Short Spurts.
Open and Locked By Rob Rosen “f**k,” Gus muttered, seconds after his car came to a skidding stop along the side of the deserted country road. The flat was unexpected, though the lack of a spare tire was not—after all, he couldn’t fit it and the two side tables he’d bought into the trunk at the same time. Then again, the antique shopping occurred a week prior, and the dusty tire now sat in his garage a good fifty miles away, back in the city. “f**k,” he reiterated, kicking the flat with the now unmistakable hole in it. Little good that it did him. “Now what?” he asked himself, once he realized his cellphone had no reception out in the middle of nowhere. He glanced right, down the barren, tree-lined road. “Nothing,” he groaned. He looked left. “Damn it.” In truth, he hadn’t seen another c