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

There was a hesitation, and then he felt that presence move further away, until at last Garner could no longer sense him. Now, free to turn his full attention to his captors, he experienced something of a recovery of his will. Before he could even think of what he might do at this stage, the man standing over him leaned down and hit him in the face with a particularly large fist.


Though stunned, Garner never actually lost consciousness. He lay there, confused and detached from his circumstance for what must have been a considerable time. Dimly, he was aware at some point, of being lifted and carried—not far, and then set down again, this time on grass rather than asphalt.


After this, he returned to full consciousness only slowly, to discover that his legs had been bound together at the ankles. Though his arms were free, a slight effort at movement taught him how helpless you were without free movement of your legs.


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