Contemporary Gay Romances by Felice Picano

Author:Felice Picano [Picano, Felice]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 9781602826403
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, Inc.
Published: 2011-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

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“Stephen Hunter was homosexual, wasn’t he?”

Frances Ormond looked across the distressed oak-parquet of the old table at Ben.

“I guess they still don’t talk much about those matters in college, do they?” she asked, instead of answering him.

“The vagabond who murdered him was a hustler, wasn’t he?”

“You seem to know all the answers. Why ask?”

“In the bedroom?”

“Stephen tried to get away. He hid in the storage closet.”

Ben wasn’t surprised to hear it: only vaguely chilled to know his line of reasoning had been so on-target.

“And Victor and Stephen were friends, weren’t they?”

“Not by then, they weren’t. They had been. Close friends. But that summer they had a falling-out.”

“Because Victor wouldn’t sleep with Stephen.”

“You do have all the answers, don’t you? Yes, Victor looked up to Stephen as though he were a god. But he couldn’t bring himself to love him that way. Generous as Victor is with himself. Sometimes too generous, if you ask me. People want more than Victor can give.”

“And that’s when Stephen began picking up hustlers.”

“No. He’d done that long before he met Victor. You’ve read the sequence he titled ‘Broken Bones,’ haven’t you?”

“Years ago,” Ben admitted. He’d never dreamed it was about hustlers.

Frances got up from the table and went to another room. She returned with a copy of Hunter’s Collected Poems. Ben found the page and reread the first few poems in the series. He was shaken by the harsh, beautiful images of lust and fear.

“This is why you said I was heading in the same direction?” Ben asked.

“I don’t care what you do—just be careful.”

“I’ve never brought anyone back to the cottage,” Ben said.

“I never said you did. Borrow the book,” she pleaded. “Read him again, Ben. He has a great deal to tell you. All great poets do. But I think Hunter has a special message for you.”

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