surface since he'd begun. He needed, quite desperately, to walk for awhile. Deliberately thinking of little, ambling along empty, midnight sidewalks, he was suddenly accosted by a boy of fifteen. The boy was trembling and mumbling something about his father waiting upstairs to kill him. It was impossible, however, to listen very closely because even under the dim visibility that the streetlight cast, he knew that the face looking up and past him was the most beautiful he'd ever seen. Soft, black boy-mopped hair hung slightly curled over a smooth, unmarked oval that suggested drawing-book perfection. His mouth, his nose and his neck all seemed so delicately small, but his eyes-they were huge and dark and glistened under long lashes. Despite himself, he felt violently drawn to this quailing, black-dungareed boy so beautiful and so close to him. He knew he should move quickly, run from the need as he'd always done, but he couldn't. His mind, tense upon disappearing, was eased back into a body feeding its sucking, abstinence-kicked desires. His body demanded and his mind acceded. He listened closely now to what the boy was saying and promised him that he'd talk to his father tomorrow or to the police if he wished and that tonight he could stay at his place.

The boy stirred, about to waken. What would he do now? Have the boy sit up in bed while he hurled himself through the window? Give the boy matches to burn all his books and manuscripts, or take him to the police and confess in his presence? No, the melodramatic possibilities were lost to him as of last night. No more dreams and no more illusions. When the boy awakened, he would love him.

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