Chapter 7

“I hear you’ve been asking after Jack and Tim,” he begins.

I’m so thrown by his statement that I just look at him, which prompts him to spill.

“I saw ‘em once, having a fuck. They done it in a grove up the canyon, thinking nobody could see. I happened over the hill and what a sight. I watched the whole thing, Jack bare bottomed, bent against a tree, Tim going at him. Then, when he’d come, he drops down and sucks Jack’s dick. I never seen a man do that before, take a dick into his mouth. Have to confess, it got me right stiff.”

When I don’t laugh, Stu does, slapping his thigh. “Don’t that beat all?” he asks.

I say no more, consumed by a blaze he’s set with the telling. It’s like a lightning bolt has set off a conflagration that will never be put out. I rein Ned to turn away.

“I’ll go check further up,” I say.