Trysts by Steve Berman

Author:Steve Berman [Berman, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, gay sex, hook ups, gay, encounters, spec fic, Horror
ISBN: 9781590210000
Publisher: Lethe Press
Published: 2008-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

RESEMBLANCES

The old stairs creaked underneath him. Dave shifted the paper bag of canned goods into his other arm and gripped the long banister. Just one more flight until his floor. He paused, looking at one apartment door and wondering if there was anyone left inside. And if there was, were they the sort to break into another tenant’s place and steal something precious?

In his hall, the bulb had broken yet again. He stepped around the circular pattern the shards of glass had made on the industrial carpet. The lock on his door was shiny and new. The key to it was monstrous, all jagged and teethed. He hated both, but after last month when he woke up in the middle of the night and found his place a mess, things taken, and the front door wide open, he needed the security.

Inside the studio apartment, he was greeted by static from the radio on the coffee table. He set his package down and tried to find a station. How many were still broadcasting? At last he found a weak voice describing those areas of the city that had Fallen. So far his neighborhood was not listed. But he had his doubts.

His desk was a mess of papers. He pushed aside some ancient sketches and uncovered last month’s rent check. No one had knocked on his door for it, and he had not seen another tenant in over two weeks. They must have all departed for safer zones before the authorities cordoned off the area. He picked up the check and tore it in half; the money in his account had already been spent so didn’t really matter.

He wanted to have the urge to go into the other side of his studio apartment, to where he kept all his art supplies, and do something with his hands. But he had been dry of inspiration for so long and still felt nothing other than the urge to sleep and listen to the radio spitting dread news. The bed sheets were open, perhaps still a bit warm from this morning. He sighed and went to them.

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