SEVEN MINUTES
A short story by Gary Adrian Randall


THIS IS A STORY ABOUT SEX. LOVE. BIGOTRY. AND MURDER.
Adrian is a self-proclaimed artist that lives life according to his own hedonistic urges, for drug fueled parties, sexual experimentation, and dangerous adventure.
Jedd is Adrian's boyfriend, a former frat-boy whose life has descended into a blur of gay excess, which he only kind of pretends to hate.
They are deeply in love.
When one night spirals out of control though, is love enough?

The story conveys almost the same kind of edge-of-your-seat feeling as a suspense film.
It's very cinematic in its narrative style, and has the same kind of "holy s---, did that just happen?" vibe of the best of Tarantino's films, with the queer edge and post-modernism of some of Gregg Araki's films, like "Doom Generation" or "Kaboom."
-S. PISCHL
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The story conveys almost the same kind of edge-of-your-seat feeling as a suspense film.
It's very cinematic in its narrative style, and has the same kind of "holy s---, did that just happen?" vibe of the best of Tarantino's films, with the queer edge and post-modernism of some of Gregg Araki's films, like "Doom Generation" or "Kaboom..."
-S. PISCHL
'Sex, drugs, murder and love....what more could you want?'
Aside from a raunchy comedy, it's a very intimate love story that takes you inside the heads of not just the main characters, but everyone they come in contact with.
I went from laughing hysterically, to being turned on, to crying. If you are gay, love gays, trannies, sex, suspense, love, then this is a great read for you.
-NADZYBOO
We are introduced to several of the characters for only a matter of pages, yet the reader connects with them on a very deep level and is left wanting to know more. What makes this even more amazing is that the entire story takes place over only a single night. One single crazy, big city, not sober, but just believable enough, night.
-MELODY JUNE
Coming from someone who steers away from anything in the fiction realm, I was completely taken aback by Randall's work.
It was a very quick read (even quicker because you couldn't wait to see what ridiculously obscene whack ass situation Randall was going to throw at you next). Seven Minutes makes something like Wahlberg's Requiem for a Dream seem like a Walt Disney story.
LORA F.
'Awesome book - now make it a series!'
This was a fitting read after I read American Psycho and Gone Girl over Christmas. I really dug the quick pace and rapid cuts between action, there's never a moment of down time as Jedd & Adrian paint the town red (so to speak...)
I read it a second time just to get a better grasp on some of the characters - hopefully we'll see a vol. 2 of this series. Soon...
-DD
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