Side Hustle

In retrospect, Leo figured that all this was punishment for looking at porn when he should have been grading.

He’d thought that the actor’s face looked familiar: the perpetual scruff, the tousled brown hair, the sun-kissed copper of his skin. Maybe it had taken him a second to recognize who it was because, absent his trademark boots and scarf, and dressed only in scanty leathers, he could have passed for someone else. But once he realized who it was, the horror of discovery combined with the thrill of scandal kept his eyes glued to the screen.

Mendoza. Isaac Mendoza, member of his cohort and fellow advisee under Professor Gutierrez, was definitely and undoubtedly in a gay porn flick.

Life in a small linguistics department becomes unbelievably awkward for Chinese American graduate student Leo when he discovers that, not only is his classmate Isaac starring in porn, it's incredibly hot porn. Isaac's not shy about his side hustle, and soon both of them know each other's secrets. When Leo ends up being the last one at Isaac's after a party, their mutual attraction comes to a head, and Leo finds his fantasies becoming unexpectedly real...