Focus on someone elseโs problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice. From now on youโll have to live in a world you didnโt make up. Horrible thought.
Josh LanyonEverything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your loverโs hand in public
Josh LanyonYou know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.
Josh LanyonHe was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him on the towel, wrapped it around him, and put him in my car. I drove to the emergency clinic, the cat purring on the seat beside me. โWhatโs his name?โ the young man at the front desk asked as my towel and cat were whisked to a back room. โUhโฆJohn Tomkins,โ I said. โThatโs different,โ the receptionist said, writing it down. โHe was a pirate,โ I said. โI mean Tomkins. I donโt know about the cat. (...)
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