THE COLLECTION: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard by Tom Leger & Riley MacLeod

Author:Tom Leger & Riley MacLeod
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Topside Press
Published: 2012-10-16T04:30:00+00:00

Allen thinks he has the clap again. He wakes up restless from the booze leaving his system—that ever present alarm clock—you are sober now! It is 7am and he has nothing to do except wonder how to get azithromycin without Sarah finding out. He doesn’t quite trust his family physician to not slip the information out—the man is obviously a heavy drinker with loose lips. Everyone in the country club knew Allen was taking testosterone way before his voice even started its seesaw drop.

Last time this had happened, Allen had gone to the anonymous STI clinic. He’d sat there in the rows of orange metal seats wearing sunglasses and a fake moustache. All the night before he’d stayed up, anxious that people would recognize him, but when he walked in nobody interrupted their gaze—the entire room trapped in a visual standoff with the TV chained to the wall. The movie was The Green Mile. On the yellowing screen a mouse dashed out of big black hands, a man screamed while being fried to death. Those in the room waiting for their HIV test results gripped their call numbers tightly, beads of sweat traveling down their cheeks.

There had been something very pleasing to Allen about his visit to the clinic. Being treated as the common man. In exchange for his number a flat-faced nurse led him to a room and barked questions at him tonelessly. How many sex partners had he had? How many had he barebacked with? Had he ever exchanged sex for money? When asked that, a warm feeling of flattery settled into him. He knew that these were just routine questions from a form, but Allen was enticed by the mere insinuation that even a chubby, middle-aged trans man such as himself could be a hustler—like a vision into an alternate life he could have had. For that reason, when he counted out how many sex partners he had, he left out Sarah.

The experience was so thrilling that after he swallowed his handful of antibiotics he went straight back to the bathroom where he had pissed into a cup just moments earlier, and he sucked someone’s dick next to the toilet bowl.

He had promised himself to put an end to his sexual exploits. He was a heterosexual man married to a woman, made famous by a public transition that would make exclusive rights to any baby photos that his union might produce worth six figures at least. He had worked damn hard to keep his transition classy, but this ridiculous hunger for cock was threatening to get in the way of everything. He was investigating selling movie rights. He was solidly booked for speaking engagements and book signing events. His busy life of appointments and appearances had not served to curb his sexual habits, however. On the road and away from L.A., he was free. Once his publicist had gone to sleep, there was nothing to stop him from going on Craigslist with the explicit goal of trolling for sex.

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