{"id":412,"date":"2013-07-24T20:27:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T20:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saraalva.com\/?page_id=412"},"modified":"2014-01-14T05:20:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T05:20:03","slug":"no-strings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/?page_id=412","title":{"rendered":"No Strings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_150\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saraalva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nostrings2b1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-150 style=\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/saraalva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nostrings2b1-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nostrings2b1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/saraalva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nostrings2b1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover art by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/madisonparklove.com\/\">Madison Parker<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>YA Short Story<\/p>\n<p>Originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gayauthors.org\/index.html\">GayAuthors.org<\/a>\u00a0as part of their Summer 2012 Anthology<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Sex is all Josh\u2019s friend Kristina seems to think about. She\u2019s decided the time has come to give it a try\u2014preferably with no strings attached. When Josh turns her down, Kristina comes up with an alternate plan. Now Josh is stuck buddying up to one of the schools most sex-hungry guys in the hopes of pairing him off with Kristina.<\/p>\n<p>But where does Josh stand on this whole no-strings sex thing? Can he really let Kristina lose her virginity to the shallow Brennan, or should he end things before they go too far? And either way, can he stop counting the freckles on Brennan\u2019s face?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">10,000 words. Free read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/reader\/42116-no-strings?return_to=%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F17404970-no-strings\" target=\"_blank\">Download PDF on Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gayauthors.org\/story\/kingdombythesea\/nostrings\/1\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YA Short Story Originally published on\u00a0GayAuthors.org\u00a0as part of their Summer 2012 Anthology *** Sex is all Josh\u2019s friend Kristina seems to think about. She\u2019s decided the time has come to give it a try\u2014preferably with no strings attached. When Josh turns her down, Kristina comes up with an alternate plan. Now Josh is stuck buddying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions\/991"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}