Sunday, April 7, 2013

Charles Harvey...My Guest Storyteller

Please welcome the short fiction writer Charles Harvey as my special guest storyteller. Today Harvey will present the short micro fiction piece "Just Gerald."
We hope you enjoy his story and will check out his other gay and literary works. We also invite you to submit short fiction pieces of 200 words or less. That's micro fiction--short and sweet, like your last date perhaps. We will consider your submissions at acad1987@gmail.com  only.
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Just Gerald

            It’s been gnawing at him a long time-- chewing his gut and making his bones feel like somebody’s grating them with sandpaper. Gerald read the yellowed newspaper clipping, looking at the picture of his dark face with eyes wild as a panther’s. The camera captured his wildness and scandalized him on page one.
What about the white boy? He had a dick too. In fact it was his dick down Gerald’s throat. But he was rich. It was Gerald who was sentenced to that long prison term in 1959 for “unnatural acts.”
Gerald picked up yesterday’s fresh paper and read the announcement in Weddings & Anniversaries: “Bud and Cassie McMillan to Celebrate 50 Years of Wedded Bliss Tomorrow” In the picture, Bud looked like Colonel Sanders. In 1959 Bud was Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, and James Dean all rolled into one. Gerald remembered being mistook for Sidney Poitier frequently back in those days. He scratched at the patch of hair next to his left ear and grunted.
Gerald oiled his pistol and loaded two bullets. “Wedded bliss tomorrow, funerals next week,” he said to himself as he lay the gun on his bible which held his will.

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