Swing State by Steve Milton

Author:Steve Milton [Milton, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-04T23:00:00+00:00

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On the way home, Clint clicked the car MP3 player to Das Racist’s Sit Down, Man. The album’s title reminded him of what he felt like saying at his meeting with Reg, and the politically conscious lyrics reminded him of the ideals he hoped to stick by -- as well as the political fire in the belly that he and Reg shared. Clint imagined what it would be like for Reg to be his actual boyfriend. Could they cruise around listening to Das Racist? Probably not. If Reg succeeded in the election, as he succeeded in everything except love, could Clint cruise around with the POTUS listening to Das Racist? Maybe cruise around in Air Force One. It would be a new life, even for a top-of-his-class law student; it would be a set of completely new experiences.

Only after leaving the restaurant did Clint begin to process the weirdness of seeing Reg Tarry at the table with Alissa, and even further weirdness of him, Clint, being scouted and perhaps even wooed to become Reg Tarry’s boyfriend -- Clint, who had never even had a boyfriend, being considered to be the boyfriend of the strikingly handsome man who was also the primary election season’s Republican presidential frontrunner. And who was officially “straight.” Clint didn’t even resort to the mental device of checking whether it was a dream, because his dreams were never that weird.

When it was all actually happening, Clint had been completely in the moment, unable to step outside the immediate situation and let his “this is weird” alarms sound. Driving home, those alarms did start sounding. But not in a bad way. As much as going to college had opened a new world, going to law school had opened a new world -- that wasn’t the end, because working for Pedro opened a new world, and working on UPride opened a new world -- and the possibility of a relationship with Reg reinforced that there were more worlds to be opened. That Clint’s life hadn’t peaked yet. That he hadn’t finished traveling the world as his own stomping grounds, making the whole world, all its worlds, his own firmly held campaign district.

Wasn’t it already weird that a Florida City boy had worked his way through Barry University with straight As and was now going to law school? Wasn’t it already weird that an openly gay kid from a poor family was hobnobbing with Miami’s elite? So how much weirder would it be if that openly gay kid got intimate with a Presidential candidate? Would the guaranteed secrecy of the whole thing make it more weird or less weird? Reg Tarry, after all, had a “girlfriend.”

Once Clint got home to his student apartment in Coral Gables, he used WhatsApp to send Reg an article analyzing the differences on various issues between the primary and the general-election electorates. Clint and Reg discussed it, only by typing in WhatsApp, well into the night. As outspoken as Clint could be at a lunch

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