Sublime

Uncertain, Thom realized, whether to trust the instinct that Thom was playing him, and the relationship was a hoax, or to trust the instinct that no one would associate themselves with Clay unless they had to.

a colleague—Kira’s

Gabe, by contrast, was skin and bone. He was touching forty but looked ten years older again, with a face on him like a vandalised church, long and angular and pitted, eyes glinting deep in their sockets like smashed-out windows.

Through my mask, his neck smelled the way he smelled on waking, some combination of being outside in the woods and bread, and I thought how in the last few weeks, the idea of him had sometimes made me nervous but the reality of him always comforted me.

“God consistently challenges the chosen and includes the excluded.

Thomas Hal Phillips’ The Bitterweed Path (1949) looked at a complicated erotic relationship between a father and son and a third man; Paul Goodman’s Parents Day (1951) examined the relationship of a married man with a student at a private school; Gerald Tesch’s Never the Same Again (1956) was a sympathetic account of an affair between a thirteen-ye

He’s a study in contrasts, a rare person who sees little conflict in owning many identities at once.

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