Cupid in a Stroller by Avery Duran

Author:Avery Duran [Duran, Avery]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: short story
Publisher: Avery Duran
Published: 2019-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

I SPENT THE NEXT FEW days moping about Gideon, thinking about Gideon, jerking off thinking about Gideon, and moping about Gideon some more. Clearly, my feelings for this guy were pretty strong—especially considering I’d only known him a short time. Was it just a matter of wanting what I couldn’t have, or could this be something real?

“Ow!” I jumped around to see what just hit me in the back of the head. My asshole brother was laughing in the doorway, a blue stress ball emblazoned with the name of a local bank on the floor. I had been engrossed in updating a spreadsheet, my earbuds in and music turned way up.

I rubbed my head. “What the fuck was that for?”

“I wanted to get your attention.”

“Well, you got it.” I shot him an irritated glare. “What was so important you had to interrupt my work? I don’t dare stop your creative flow.”

“This isn’t about work. You’ve been nasty for days—even Bubbie noticed and she usually thinks you are a perfect angel. All you do is work and snipe at us. I know you’re upset about Gideon—”

“It’s not about Gideon,” I interrupted. “I’m just busy.”

“This is totally about Gideon. You barely know the guy, and you’re obsessing. Seriously, R, you need to shit or get off the pot.”

Exasperated, I ran my fingers through my hair. “It was nothing, and it’s over anyway. He didn’t call Mom to cancel, so I’ll wait until we need to meet with him again and act like nothing happened. No biggie.”

Hershey raised an eyebrow—he knew I was full of crap, but there was no way I was going to admit it to him. “So why don’t you open your Grindr app and get laid? That should make you a little less of a dick to be around.”

“What, so I can end up with one of your exes again? You know I can’t use it anymore.” It had happened more than once. Being gay, women didn’t do it for me at all. Hershey was bi, so on occasion, a woman mistook me for him when out at a club; this had led to more than one awkward encounter. It was also how I had my first—and only—straight kiss. Not counting Amanda Corgan during a game of spin the bottle in sixth grade.

Add electronic same-sex hookups to the mix, and it gets worse. We don’t share, ever. But twincest is actually a thing. Not our thing, but it’s a thing nonetheless. When we go out together, we get propositioned all the time. It’s easy to get out of it when meeting someone face-to-face, but when one of his past hookups figured out I was on Grindr, that caused trouble. Needless to say, I deleted the app. Hershey figured that effectively eliminated any possibility of double dipping, so he continued to Grind away.

I twirled my chair around to face my computer. “I’m fine Hersh, just go and tell them you talked to me.” I popped my earbuds back in and tried to get lost in the numbers again.

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