Openly erotic and smart, the stories of Best Gay Romance deliver hope and happy endings. Dale Chase's ';The Early Show' describes the tantalizing flirtation of two writers who share an eccentric habit of showing up early to Sunday matinees to enjoy the promising half-dark of the theater. S.J. Frost's ';No More Mirages' is a tale of romantic destiny set in a dojo, an oasis of bamboo, white mats, and stone sculptures where an actor, bitter from his last break-up, finds himself drawn to a charismatic sensei. And in Rob Rosen's wonderfully funny ';Nudie Blues,' a romance writer discovers a hole in his backyard fence and the hunky new neighbor behind it.