Attraction rarely follows the rules—and sometimes it doesn’t remain entirely of this world. These seven stories explore the sparks, surprises and complications that arise when queer desire takes hold.

Fresh from an eight-year relationship, Daniel scrolls through a hookup app at a party before an encounter with Taylor suggests that love at first sight might be real. In a smoke-filled sports bar in 1974, two men communicate everything they cannot say aloud through a game of eight-ball pool. During lifeguard training, timid Marco becomes entranced by the mysterious Xavier and must decide whether to risk rejection or let queer joy pass him by. A bar-bathroom hookup takes an otherworldly turn, forcing two men to work through their problems before they can move forward. After discovering her husband’s interest in gay pornography, Molly arranges a threesome that reveals deeper complexities within their marriage. A first date between a trans man and a queer man becomes an unexpected adventure filled with intimacy, affirmation and gender euphoria. And a seemingly perfect housewife’s appetite for expensive meat—and the butcher who knows exactly how to handle it—exposes the cracks in her carefully constructed life.