Last February, Tinhouse Magazine started their first Plotto contest on their blog. In 500 words or less, you had to write a story based on the selected prompt from the Plotto book. I attempted a couple of these: below is the only one I completed. (I need to keep my eyes out for more of these contests, however, since it was great fun.)
The prompt was:
{A’s} profession is a hazardous one—aviator, automobile racing driver, steeple jack, “human fly”—and {B} considers this fact an obstacle to their marriage
But of course I turned it into a science fiction story involving a group marriage. So yes, plenty of GLBT content — technically everyone in the story qualifies as bi, but in 500 words you can only get across so much.
This one is PG-13 rated (unless you have a strong objection to group marriage). Read it after the jump: