Back then, all the boys his age had hero-worshipped costumed vigilantes. Jack supposes they still do.
Artists and models.
A reimagining of the scene with Julian in the forbidden garden in Chapter VI Part II: A Gift and a Curse. What if the guards passed the garden by entirely and Julian and the Apprentice had more time? Julian is a cis man; Apprentice's gender and body are unspecified.
There in that white-gilt bedroom like a tomb, where I believe none of Gatsby's guests had ever before set foot except by mistake — none until Daisy, and I was only her adjunct and proxy, an accessory to her presence there in the house. He had forgotten about me then. He had forgotten about me now. I was his only witness.
Don't think of it as workplace sexual harassment; consider it feedback.
thefourthvine wrote, "I want the story whe…
thefourthvine wrote, "I want the story where someone sits down and thinks that, and lists every single person in the canon (probably in some kind of database, with numerical codes and assigned weights for each category and stuff) and weighs all the pros and cons and finally, after a lot of careful deliberation, selects a candidate for the position of Significant Other."
This is the first step in that process.
Jopson finds himself tied up in an extremely inconvenient fashion.
Will Graham is very, very tired.
It's two years before Ginsberg goes back to Manhattan. Somehow he didn't picture it happening like this.
The two of them are marked by water.