HeyJaredStories Between Us Anthology
Stories Between Us Anthology is home to original Black Queer audio stories centered on the lives, desires, and emotional worlds of queer men. Late-night stories about love, tension, secrecy, ambition, and the quiet moments we don’t always talk about.
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- Sep 8, 2026
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REPLAY: The Man Next Door Has a Secret DL Life (Volume 1 Now Available on Amazon Kindle) (opens the original)
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The Man Next Door Has a Secret DL Life follows a married man hiding a secret life and the emotional complications that come with keeping that part of himself hidden. This story explores secrecy, desire, betrayal, vulnerability, and the complicated reality of living on the Down Low. 📖 NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE Want to experience the story in written form? The Man Next Door Has a Secret DL Life is now available as an Amazon Kindle e-book . https://a.co/d/09E15ioB Whether you're hearing this s
Two Gay Dads: ALL 6 Chapters | Black Gay Love, Adoption, and Family | For Better or For Worse (opens the original)
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Every chapter of For Better or Worse, back to back - the wedding, the baby on the doorstep, the custody fight, the ruling, and the ending that makes it all worth it. This is the complete short story: Martin and Carl, two Black, Gay, newly married men, thrown into parenthood days after their wedding when a birth mother in recovery hands them her daughter. What follows is a long fight - through a biased home visit, a birth mother's return, a courtroom loss neither of them saw coming, and the phone
Two Gay Dads Lose A Daughter, Then Get A Second Chance At Fatherhood | For Better or Worse Ep. 6 Final Episode (opens the original)
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They lost the custody case. Weeks later, a phone call changes everything again - and this time, nothing can take it away. In this final episode of For Better or Worse, Martin and Carl grieve, fight, and find their way back to each other before Denise calls with a newborn boy and a incontestable adoption. Months later, at the same park bench where this all started, they're not alone - Mariah is there with Amara, and the family none of them planned for finally has room for everybody. This is the e
Custody Returned to the Birth Mother | Two Husbands Left in Silence | For Better or Worse Ep. 5 (opens the original)
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The custody petition finally has a date set for a courtroom. Two newlywed men. One birth mother. Mariah takes the stand first, and for the first time in this story, she tells exactly why she gave her daughter away. Martin testifies next, honest in a way that costs him something with his own husband. Then the judge rules, and Martin and Carl learn that loving a child and legally keeping her are not always the same fight. This episode reveals the truth about Mariah, the cost of Martin's honesty, a
A Mothers Plea, Gay Married Dads, and the Daughter They Don't Want To Lose | Audio Drama | For Better or Worse Ep. 4 (opens the original)
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Mariah stood fifteen feet away with her hands shaking, she had been watching Martin and Carl for weeks. Six weeks into fatherhood, Martin and Carl finally have a routine - Saturday mornings in the park, coffee, a stroller, a life that's starting to feel normal. Then Amara's birth mother appears out of nowhere, desperate to see her baby, and everything they thought was settled gets thrown wide open again. What she reveals about how she found them, and what she wants now, forces Martin and Carl in
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