Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby

Author:Taylor Brorby [Brorby, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: United States, History, State & Local, Epub3, Midwest (IA; IL; IN; KS; MI; MN; MO; ND; NE; OH; SD; WI), Environmentalists & Naturalists, Personal Memoirs, Literary Figures, Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781324090878
Google: 0ANLEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 2022-06-07T20:36:35+00:00

LOCAL MAN OVERDOSES AT REST STOP.

FAMILY MOURNS MAN’S SUICIDE.

I didn’t want to die, but I didn’t know how to live in this new tension with my parents. I wanted to be alive in the bright beautiful world that now was tinged with pain—like a sliver in the supple part of my hand, something I couldn’t remove, couldn’t pull out, something that wouldn’t leave, or leave me alone.

I slowly put each bottle in the drawer, closed it, stripped out of my clothes, showered, dried, and dressed. Then I crept out of the front door and drove away.

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