The World of the End by Ofir Touché Gafla

Author:Ofir Touché Gafla [Gafla, Ofir Touché]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, General, Contemporary, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780765333568
Google: mEl5vlGAjM8C
Amazon: 0765333570
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2013-06-24T12:00:00+00:00

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Gaymorrah

On the twelfth day of his death, Ben woke up from dreamless sleep to a morning comprised of equal parts fear and excitement. He was happy to meet up with the most flamboyant of the Mendelssohns, whom he missed sorely since the latter had succumbed to the terrible disease. Ben recalled Uncle David saying that he always knew the untamable workings of his sexual appetite would ruin him, but never, in his wildest dreams, did he imagine that a woman would snuff out the eternal flame of his erotic escapades.

Amidst a stormy sex life of daily conquests, David dared go without protection a single time, and that was because he didn’t think that the strange and foreign gender, which never aroused him before, could pose a danger. One night, during a wild vacation in Ibiza, inebriated and snubbed earlier by a Spanish hedonist, the man-slayer felt an unnatural excitement in his loins when the beautiful Finnish tourist laid a hand on him. The pill that she slipped under his tongue before dragging him off to her bed didn’t hurt either, and he, in a daze, went at it till his consciousness waned.

Two months after the last of his friends’ rolling laughter had died down, once they’d finished asking him to retell of the peculiar encounter at every get-together, David opened the paper and spotted a picture of the Finnish prostitute. The article detailed how the HIV-positive hooker went on a rampage, determined to punish the stronger sex collectively, instead of settling the score with the one who “gave” it to her. The headline, “Cold-blooded Killer,” took on a chilling new meaning, and David swore off the fruit of life for an entire month. The test results were unequivocal and brought with them the realization that the party was over, or at least restricted to a small segment of the population, since, despite his soaring libido, David had a black-and-white conscience and was unwilling to endanger the healthy. David kept up an active, albeit limited sex life and began to tell his confidantes that he thought perhaps it was high time to find his long-lost Jonathan. The search for a soul mate stood in direct contrast with one of the central pillars of his outlook on life: that men, of all stripes, sizes, and colors, were to be enjoyed equally. Consequently, seeking out a single lover drained him of his ardor for the sexual act. A few months before the disease surprisingly raided his body and developed into a life-claiming case of pneumonia, he told his nephew, Ben, that, merciless virus notwithstanding, it was clear to him that he was next in line. “The Mendelssohn curse, you know.” When he died, on a glorious fall day, his friends carried out his final wish and conducted a funeral procession that passed by the six sports apparel stores he owned. His close friend, Doron, spoke in a wavering voice and said that David’s last words before leaving this world were “Back to the closet.

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