August In Midtown
by Xander (xanderdg@hotmail.com)
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The unabridged and almost wholly true tale of a high
school jock’s first and only homosexual experience…
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When I was seventeen years old, in 1990, I had a summer
job working at a deli on Cheshire Bridge in Atlanta,
Georgia. Every day, I would carve meat up for the hungry
masses for eight hours a day – this was probably the
beginning of my becoming a vegetarian.
Anyway, at the end of my shift I would change out of my
sweaty, sometimes bloody work clothes, throw on some
shorts and walk the two miles home to watch some TV or
read a book – usually ending the evening with a rousing
session of masturbation. My longtime girlfriend had
started college in August, so my social and sexual life
had found a new crimp.
I lived in the Virginia Highlands neighborhood at the
time, and my trek took me through Midtown – the “gay”
part of town. Almost every day, I was cruised by one man
or another. Their approaches ran the gamut from the
benign (“how ya doing there?”) to the lascivious. (One
guy in a Yugo pulled up next to me and called me over –
his cock was out and hard as a rock, simply massive, and
he told me he wanted to break my ass with it. I often
wonder what would have happened if I had gotten in
instead of threatening to kick his ass before he sped
away.)
One august afternoon, it had to be in the upper nineties.… Read the rest