Salvation Boys by Kyler Doss

Author:Kyler Doss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay boys, innocent kids, christian teen, baseball, pretty honest, happy ever after, normal boys, lonely teen, dating, queer angst, young adult collection, first love, introvert, questioning, gay kiss, gay loner, gay crush, straight acting, clean language, don't tell, roughhousing
Publisher: Kyler Doss
Published: 2020-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

A Shortstop's Play

Chapter 1

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TIM, 16, took the new boy out to the desert. When they got there, he hardly needed to explain anything. The dune rose hundreds of feet from the desert floor.

"Just wait till we get to the top," Tim said.

He needed to get there, away from all the hassles in town. The problem was every kid in high school that couldn't mind their own business about your personal life.

"This is something else," Shane said.

They sank up to their knees, but made a deceptive progress up the face of the strange mountain.

Having Shane with him changed the world for Tim. The dunes were more than sand and blue. They were more than a place where the wind could practice its skills.

"We'll walk to the western side," Tim said, all but lost at the top, "and catch the sundown."

From a place over the water, the sun aimed one last beam at a low angle to the desert basin. There was nothing down there but a flat surface, where the winds tumbled and the waters dried.

"Okay," Tim said, "I'm gonna take two leaps off of here." He squared himself to the edge. "Later, we'll do five leaps side by side."

"Like the cow jumped over the moon," Shane said. He must have known what was going on.

Tim took a run and left earth for the free fall of space. If he had to jump over the moon to get to Shane, he would. The air rolled by and the sand waited patiently for his return. He planted his right foot and sank deep in the landing, then released hard into another leap.

He would find out soon enough if he had made it over the moon. This time on the landing he let himself fall back in the sand, back in the impression he had just made. He looked immediately up the shoulder of the mountain for a sign that Shane was about to follow.

Shane's first jump was graceful, like the flight of the Arabian falcon. He tilted coming off the first landing, and the second flight bore the name of the least graceful bird in the sky. He landed about 20 feet short and rolled down the mountain until Tim caught him.

"Are you alright?" Tim said.

He held him as gently as he could, and Shane held on tight.

"Man, I lost it," Shane said.

"Are you okay?"

"That was fun." Shane put his head against the face of the mountain.

Silence replaced their laughter. Tim stared at the deepening blue above them, almost ready to go where it would take him.

"It just keeps getting bluer," he said.

"It's so quiet."

Tim made no effort to move or speak. The blue got bluer. Shane was still there, holding on.

"Thanks for bringing me here," he said.

The blue got so blue that it was perfect. Tim pointed at it.

"You know how dreams are weird?" he said.

"Yeah."

"I want to tell you about one of them." He needed to bring up things that were strange.

"I wanna hear it," Shane said.

Tim drew a baseball diamond in the air.

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