Happily Neverafter

Greece is full of history, so it figures that Chance's on-again, off-again lover would find him there. Sweets to the Sweet appears in Athens during a string of riots, and the beguiling creature who now goes by the name Hunter has insinuated himself among the staff of a nearby hospital.

Milo Alexakis is a member of the Hellenic Police—and with all the protests and the rioting, he's ruing the crappy grades and crappier finances that kept him out of university and put him in the daily path of hurled insults, spit wads and cobblestones. American Dave Shaw is ruing the fact that he never managed to learn any Greek before he embarked on the world's worst vacation, alone.

Cop meets tourist in a brilliant conflagration—and amidst the molotov cocktails and burning cars, Chance finds the lure of his old flame impossible to resist.

(Novelette-length story - 18,800 words)