This story was originally published in Day One, a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers.
As the only older gay man at the artists’ colony that summer, Jeremy is afforded a special degree of respect. The younger artists are curious about him, but they can’t understand all he’s been through—his coming out, the painful rejection by his family, the AIDS crisis. Brady, a beautiful artist twenty years his junior, has a particular interest in Jeremy, and soon the older man is surprising himself by letting go of his usual caution to risk falling in love. Others warn him of the transient nature of romance at the colony, but for once Jeremy decides to follow his desire. Thrown among the tenderly raised artists of a new generation, he can’t quite believe how little they’ve been hurt, how easily they give love—and how casually they can take it away.
Genre: Literary Fiction
As the only older gay man at the artists’ colony that summer, Jeremy is afforded a special degree of respect. The younger artists are curious about him, but they can’t understand all he’s been through—his coming out, the painful rejection by his family, the AIDS crisis. Brady, a beautiful artist twenty years his junior, has a particular interest in Jeremy, and soon the older man is surprising himself by letting go of his usual caution to risk falling in love. Others warn him of the transient nature of romance at the colony, but for once Jeremy decides to follow his desire. Thrown among the tenderly raised artists of a new generation, he can’t quite believe how little they’ve been hurt, how easily they give love—and how casually they can take it away.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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