1979

In the waning days of the sexual revolution, Matt is sixteen when his sister asks him to keep a secret. Her boyfriend is twenty-four, from the projects, already a father, and kinder to the boy on the floor than the warnings suggested.

 

It all reaches a final bargain in a life-defining summer.

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Interior art by Ibarra Bara.

• Length: ~11,000 words. Novella.

• Tropes: Coming of age, sister’s boyfriend, first crush, gay awakening, 1970s blue-collar.

• Vibe: Retrospective, tender, raunchy, and melancholy but optimistic.

• Content: Explicit sex, age-gap desire, infidelity, and period language around race and sexuality.