Lynx Woods by PA Brown

Author:PA Brown [Brown, PA]
Language: deu
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2011-03-19T23:45:35+00:00

LYNX WOODS

full of anguish. “I don’t deserve that. We don’t deserve that.”

I pulled him into my embrace, and for a brief minute, he stiffened. I thought he was going to push me away, then he clung to me. I stroked his broad back and told him how much I loved him, and I was sure his family loved him too.

Finally he drew back, collecting himself. “Sorry,” he muttered.

“How was it with you? When you came out?”

I shrugged. “Uncertainty. Fear. This was long after AIDS was endemic, of course, so all they could focus on was that it meant exposure. I tried to tell them it didn’t have to be that way, but it took a while before they could really listen. My dad still has trouble dealing with the whole gay thing. He’s okay with it most of the time, then either he hears something, or I say something, and he pulls back again. My mother’s always been more accepting. But then I guess her background mandates she be more tolerant.

They’d come and take her Haight-Ashbury posters away if she weren’t.”

“But they’re there for you if you need them, right?”

“Hundred percent. I’m sure yours would be, too.”

He didn’t answer, and I didn’t offer any more platitudes.

“Come on,” he finally said. “Let me show you where the shower is. Maybe you feel like washing up. Are you hungry?”

“Not really. I had a snack on the plane.” I followed him out of the studio and up the rickety stairs that creaked ominously under our feet. He showed me a surprisingly modern bathroom with a large shower cubicle. It also contained a bathtub, which sat in the middle of the floor on clawed feet. It looked big enough for two people, and my imagination went off again.

Then he led me down the hall.

“My room,” he said simply, throwing open the door. He had 107

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