Garner working as a waiter at an upscale restaurant with a growing attraction to a man named Alonzo, who always asks to be put in his section for dinner. One night after work, the man is assaulted while trailing Garner. Garner goes to his aid, but is shot for his trouble.<br><br>Taking time off from work to recover, Garner is resting on a park bench when Alonzo suddenly appears at the other end of the bench. Garner never saw him approach. He asks why Alonzo is trailing him.<br><br>After some hesitation, Alonzo explains he wants to recruit Garner to help fight against others who systematically hunt people like himself. Garner isn’t inclined to get involved in anything dangerous, but he does finds Alonzo more and more attractive, so he agrees to consider the idea. As he learns more about Alonzo’s bizarre and dangerous subculture, what Garner really wants to know is whether Alonzo is romantically interested in him at all.

Call to Love

At first the man had continued to look back at him. But after a couple of minutes, his gaze drifted away and he turned to look with a casual appreciation at the park. Garner watched this intently, finding even the movement of the man’s head poetic and full of strange import. But there was something elsein that movement, too, and when the man turned to look again at Garner, it became more obvious.


He had about him a quality or air that bespoke wariness


Garner thought back to the restaurant. Hadn’t the man shown something like that there too? He brought up remembered images. It wasn’t so much wariness as—what? Unease? A kind of being withdrawn into himself? Something like that. But now it was definitely wariness.


Chapter 29