Nasty Stuff: Chapter Two: Crashed Into It

Meet Harper Clark

Age Gap Romance | Baseball Fiction | Long Island Fiction | High Heat Romance | Character-Driven Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Literary Romance | MLB Fiction | Diner Romance | Working Class Fiction | Sports Romance | Grief & Identity |Fiction

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She pours coffee for a man who doesn’t use his real name. He throws 95 mph in front of 60,000 people and eats alone at a diner he secretly owns. She’s 22 and holding her whole world together with two hands and no instructions. He’s 42 and trying to figure out if twenty years on a mound was enough or if enough is just a word people use when they’re scared to keep going. This is a baseball story. This is a grief story. This is a romance that doesn’t start clean and won’t stay polite. Long Island. Coffee. Good heat. Real people making messy decisions at midnight. Nasty Stuff (working title) is literary fiction with a romance at its center, explicit content, and a fastball you won’t see coming.

What you’re reading is a rough draft. This story is being written, revised, and figured out in real time. Characters will change. Chapters will get rewritten. Things that don’t work will get cut. You’re not just reading a story, you’re watching it get built. If that sounds like a mess, it is…