Beach Reading by Mark Abramson

Author:Mark Abramson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: gay mystery, gay detective, romance, psychic, woman detective
ISBN: 978-1-59021-139-7
Publisher: Lethe Press
Published: 2008-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

On Thursday morning it took Tim a minute to remember what day it was. He tried to remember how many drinks he’d put away last night and then he remembered his encounter with Dave Anderson as if it had been a dream. He forced one eye open and slid his hand across the bed, relieved to find it empty.

Tim plodded naked down the hall to put the coffee on and he opened the back door onto his patio. He felt even more relief that the fog had finally come in sometime during the night after such a rare clear evening. The gray day suited him. At least it didn’t lure him to the beach. He considered going straight back to bed, but he found his newspaper at the door again and thought he should do something nice for Teresa one of these days. Sometimes he felt sorry for straight women in San Francisco, especially in the Castro. What chance did they have?

As the coffee brewed he flipped through the headlines and scanned the Bay Area section: Some gays gear up to fight religious crusade while others choose to party. Tim was glad the Chronicle ran a picture of the giant mirror ball advertising the dance at the Moscone Center. He feared he might have dreamed all that, too.

He flipped to Page Two of the Datebook where he always read Jon Carroll and Leah Garchik, but Tim wasn’t awake enough to focus on them yet. Memories of last night became clearer with his first sips of coffee. They were jumbled together and mixed up with his horny dreams of high school locker rooms, jock straps, track meets and his old coach Dave Anderson.

If anyone asked, Tim would swear there was nowhere he’d rather be than San Francisco. Even when things weren’t great, they were good. Disappointments occurred, but a terrible day’s events in Minnesota, if they happened here, would cause one that was merely okay. Tim smiled when he thought of Jason’s old saying: “You know you’ve brought home the wrong guy if you define eternity by the time between when you cum and he goes.”

There were much worse things than a lousy date, such as a drop in his T-cells or the end of a love affair. Tim could sometimes ease the minor pains in life with a ride on the F-line streetcar to the Ferry Building and a long jog along the waterfront. Some days a half an hour at the gym cleared his head. But today Tim wished he were someplace else. Running would only remind him of Dave Anderson. His real trouble was that he had no one to talk to and it was his own fault. He could have told plenty of people about his past, but he didn’t.

He knew that most San Franciscans’ hearts were in the right place. For every good cause there were people ready to open their wallets and volunteers willing to donate their talents and hard work, but there was one unwritten rule.

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