"It's gay porn, kid."

I was on the bus this morning, making an excellent strike deep into Matt's mind as he deals with his emerging feelings. A few days before this scene, Matt found the Bastet boy Nico lying in a railroad ditch, unconscious, bruised and bloody, naked from the waist down, and nearly frozen to death. Since then, Matt's family, who've never seen a Bastet in their lives, took him in, had the doctor set and plaster his broken leg. Matt's gone outside to chop winter wood, and to get away from Nico. Nico, who has no idea what's going on in Matt's mind, follows him outside:

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It really is Catboys of Brokeback Mountain. How sad am I? I've been to the library to get more details on what it was like to be a midwest farmboy in the U.S. around the turn of the last century.

Anyway, as I was writing this scene, this kid sat next to me. Probably a high school senior, he was reading a magazine read by rock star wannabees, full of reviews of software that'll make you "sound pro." He kept looking over my shoulder and I said, "It's gay porn, kid. I'm about to write the first sex scene. Do you plan to keep reading?"

He left me alone after that.