You're a man who listened to your teenage son tell you how he's what you've never been able to admit about yourself: queer. When you punished him with silence, he ran away finally--to the distant city. You followed--desperate to find him. Only what you found instead was another boy--who saw through you right off, and proceeded to act upon it.
Now you can't seem to forget what that boy did. Can't seem to get him out of your head. Or your runaway son, either. Every waking hour, they both haunt you. Till you finally take off for the city again--determined to have the one, if you can't get...
You're a man who listened to your teenage son tell you how he's what you've never been able to admit about yourself: queer. When you punished him with...
Love conquers all, people say. But when love goes wrong, it can wound and sometimes the wound just will not heal.
A man returns to his old hometown seeking peace. But an unexpected sexual encounter with a teenage boy sends him back to the city he'd fled. Yet he still continues to be haunted by what occurred there. Memories arise-memories long since buried, though never deep enough-of another hometown boy who'd been his first love. It was love of a kind-heated and erratic as the boyish blood behind it-that must leave its mark. Just how much of a mark the man is about to discover during a...
Love conquers all, people say. But when love goes wrong, it can wound and sometimes the wound just will not heal.
