The Youth & Young Loves of Oliver Wade: Stories by Ben Monopoli

Author:Ben Monopoli [Monopoli, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Ben Monopoli
Published: 2015-06-10T14:00:00+00:00

I picked out some of my shorts and a t-shirt for him so he could change out of his work clothes. Then I went to the bathroom and scrubbed my teeth and tongue to minty freshness while pacing past the shower stalls and willing my heartbeat to slow. Let’s not rule anything out, he had said, which meant I was going to get laid. By him, by Johnny, slayer of dragons.

When I got back to my room he was wearing my clothes. I felt a wave of quiet comfort come over me. I guess for a person like me, a person wary of context, there was no better image than the one I was seeing: a guy with so little of his own context that he was dressed in my clothes.

He was taller than I was, and the shorts, which were knee-length on me, hit him mid-thigh, showing off his long, lean bare legs, dusted with wiry brown hairs.

“Could I borrow some mouthwash or something?” he asked, idly touching the faded UMass logo on his t-shirt.

I lent him my bucket of toiletries. While he was in the bathroom I carefully folded the pants he’d left balled up on my floor—29x36 was the size—and smoothed them over a hanger along with his red-and-blue gingham shirt. I hung his clothes in my armoire and lined up his shoes in front of it, with his socks draped over them to air out.

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