Deadly Slumber 4 by Victor J. Banis

Author:Victor J. Banis [Banis, Victor J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Gay, Mystery & Detective
ISBN: 9781608200900
Google: Bjx39cAfsn8C
Amazon: 1608200906
Publisher: MLR Press
Published: 2009-08-30T12:00:00+00:00

Deadly Slumber

by V.J. Banis

Or, maybe he, Stanley, really was too old to seriously register with the young man as a possible sexual outlet.

Which was not the happiest of thoughts. He set his own wine glass aside and said quickly, abruptly, "Good night, David."

* * * *

Lying in bed after David had gone, the lights out, the bedside window opened notwithstanding the ceaseless whisper of the air conditioning, Stanley found himself wondering what had prompted the young man to point out his lack of religious practice to someone who was really a stranger. He'd just come from his family, of course. Maybe he simply needed someone to talk to, someone sympathetic and gay.

And maybe guilt was a part of it, too, a need for expiation?

For the Jew, perhaps more than for others, blood told. All those generations, going back through the centuries. He was infected, as he put it, by far more than his mother's way of expressing herself. A young man growing up Jewish could surely not help that Old Testament sense of things. They had learned the hard way not to trust the smiling faces that they might see every day; had developed the habit of always looking over one's shoulder.

Nor, he thought, could a young man like David altogether avoid an Old Testament sense of morality, however much one might, on a conscious level, ignore, even disdain it. It was interesting, really, David's sense of something festering 156

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