Gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – by kidboise. In a word: stability. This man in his grey suit radiated stability, there in the rain next to a lamppost, not leaning against it as I would have done, but standing on his own two goddamn legs as he texted furiously on a massive phone. … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 13 by kidboise While lurching through my routine the next morning, I tossed around the memory of the kiss with a kind of detached amusement, as if it had been a dream, even laughing it off as I took stock of my morning appearance in … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 12 by kidboise Mikey and I sprawled together on his bed later that evening. It was dark outside, but not late. No longer apprehensive about arranging myself attentively toward him, I lay on my side while he rested on his back; my arm was slung … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 11 by kidboise Mikey broke away from me with apparent reluctance, canceled his alarm and then stood haphazardly on the bed in order to crank closed the window near the ceiling. “Damn, it’s cold,” he said. “This should not have been open all night.” The … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 15 by kidboise Any lost composure had been regained by the time I arrived outside the pub-a good thing, because although I was a few minutes early, Sloan crept up beside me almost immediately. “Wyatt, buddy, how’s things?” he asked, grasping my hand firmly and … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 17 by kidboise Nostalgic feelings came easily to me these days, brought on by encounters with everyday minutia like the sun-dried black leather of my mom’s rumbly old Legend, which crackled underneath me as I shifted my weight in the back seat. I surmised that … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 14 by kidboise “You know, I’ve never really thought about it,” my mom was saying. “Come on. That can’t be true.” We sat on metal folding chairs, crammed side-by-side under the keyboard tray of her small desk. “Well…” she said, staring blankly at the cluttered … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 16 by kidboise Mikey’s hands covered his face after he propped himself up against the headboard the next morning. Out the window, his building cast a commanding shadow across the street and halfway up the next row of structures. Otherwise, the sun shone new and … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 7 by kidboise Once we were stopped I got out. Mikey pulled the brake and met me in front of the car, where the engine clicked away like a sewing machine and the street was a pool of white. He engulfed me in a tight … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 9 by kidboise I settled back into wakeful existence with the fluttering undulation of a dead leaf, or of a sheet of paper, sidestepping erratically in its journey to the floor. Not one to suffer confusion upon waking, I resumed acknowledgment of my location without … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 8 by kidboise I spent the first half of Friday judiciously hungover. Marie, Sloan and I ate sushi for lunch (our first meal of the day) at a place near to her condo in Celadon. The sky had remained solidly overcast throughout the night, trapping … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 6 by kidboise My willingness to listen had, a handful of times, placed me into a peculiar conversation with individuals who, although hailing from vastly different walks of life, each described the same phenomenon. There existed at some point in their past an insurmountable inner-struggle … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 5 by kidboise I showed Mikey to the bathroom so he could clean himself up, then used my underwear to wipe down my own torso. When I finished I dropped them into the hamper and retrieved a new pair from my dresser. I waited until … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 4 by kidboise I did not wake until close to noon. Marie had left already to satisfy a prior obligation. I drank two brimming glasses of water, locked the door behind me and slept through much of the transit back home. By the time the … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 3 by kidboise Before bed and after an evening spent in mostly worthless reflection only half-interrupted by a trip to the gym and the resulting takeout meal, I made a promise to myself. I would never pressure Mikey. Whether out of fear or discretion, or … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 2 by kidboise Disappointment does not ask permission to enter one’s life; this was the irrefutable truth with which I was comfortably familiar. What I had forgotten was its stoic disregard for any pleasantness that may have entered before it. Later that morning I had … Read more
Latest gay male story: Mikey and the Chickadee – Chapter 10 by kidboise By Thursday the city had descended into a strange, bitter cold, which I believed optimistically to be winter’s final death rattle before yielding to spring. The radiated heat inside Mikey’s apartment was befitting now, and not at all uncomfortable as I stretched … Read more