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1979 (variant cover)
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.
Cover art by Ibarra Bara.
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Length: ~11,000 words. Novella.
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Tropes: Coming of age, sister’s boyfriend, first crush, gay awakening, 1970s blue-collar.
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Vibe: Retrospective, tender, raunchy, and melancholy but optimistic.
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Content: Explicit sex, age-gap desire, infidelity, and period language around race and sexuality.
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