Stories Between Us Anthology is home to Black Queer Audio dramas and short stories.
These are late-night stories. Stories about desire. Stories about love that live in the silence. About the double lives people keep, and the connections that happen in unexpected places.
My Best Friend Wasn’t Missing. He Was Drugged. | Last Seen in the Dark Room Ep. 2
Derrick is alive. But he didn’t just party too hard.
Jalen finds his best friend in a hospital bed with GHB in his system, a stranger at his bedside, and three dollars left in his bank account. Across town, a man from the same party is found dead behind the wheel of his own car. The police call it an overdose. The only clue is a sealed little brown bottle in Jalen’s bag.
Then the man who bit him in the dark room slides into his DMs, asking for round two.
Somebody at Sanctum is drugging men in the dark. And the man in Jalen’s bed knows exactly who.
🎧 Last Seen in the Dark Room is a Black gay erotic mystery audio drama from Stories Between Us Anthology.
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30 Oct 2026
My Best Friend Vanished in the Dark Room... and the Stranger I Hooked Up With Knew Why | Last Seen in the Dark Room Ep 1.
My best friend walked into the dark room at a Black gay lingerie party... and never walked out. Now the whole club swears he was never there.
LAST SEEN IN THE DARK ROOM | Episode 1: My Best Friend Vanished in the Dark Room
Jalen is the friend who holds everybody's purse. For one night at SANCTUM, the city's most notorious Black gay party, he finally lets go. Three friends go into the dark room together. Two walk out. By last call, the promoter says there was never a third guest, the dancer who partied with them all night asks "who?", and Jalen is left holding a coat-check ticket and a warning in his best friend's handwriting.
Then he finds the stranger from the dark room in the background of his own video, with his hand on his missing friend's neck.
A steamy Black gay mystery audio drama about chosen family, desire, and the people who erase us.
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28 Sept 2026
REPLAY: "Firehouse 44" | A Black Gay Love Story Born in Fire and Tested by a Hurricane
Owen Cole built his life around control around duty, around being the man everyone else could lean on. He became the firefighter others trusted with their lives because he never trusted anyone with his heart. Not after the man he loved died in a kitchen fire.
Then came Griffin Walker.
The younger firefighter who pulled Owen back from a collapsing floor. Who almost died in his arms on a burning dock. Who never asked for more but carried it in his eyes anyway.
Griffin knew the rules. He knew what it meant to want a man who had already buried love once. But surviving fires together changes things. Holding each other in hospital rooms and half-lit garages changes things.
Until the hurricane came. Until the city nearly drowned. Until Owen realized surviving was no longer enough.
A slow-burn romance about grief, duty, and choosing love after loss with rank, history, and an entire city watching.
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
9 ratings
Spotify
4.0 / 5
4 ratings
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