A Love Story Between Headlines and Coffee Cups

Cat Sebastian’s We Could Be So Good answers a tricky question: how do you write a soft, hopeful MM romance set in a decade when queer love was criminalised, pathologised, and pushed into shadows? The answer, in this case, is to narrow the camera.

Instead of sweeping us through the entire Lavender Scare, Sebastian builds a world around two men in a mid‑century New York newsroom: one anxious, overworked reporter; one charming but directionless heir who has stumbled into journalism with more privilege than experience. Within the hum of typewriters and the smell of coffee, a friendship begins that slowly edges toward something neither man has words for at first.

A Queer Breakup Story That Starts Where Most Romances End

Most MM romances and queer love stories on this site move toward the moment of building a home together—adopting a pet, moving in, or starting a family. Tom Pyun’s Something Close to Nothing walks in from the opposite direction. The interracial gay couple at its center, an Asian American man and his white partner, are already on the verge of welcoming a child via surrogacy.