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

Of course, there had been the afternoon of his parents’ death, when he had known they were dead, and asked his aunt why she was lying to him. That, he thought, must have seemed uncanny—which of course it was—and perhaps that was the reason.


And, he had felt that sense of being drawn to his uncle, who spent a lot of his time when Garner was around drinking. Until, of course, eleven months later, the evening of Garner’s second horrible experience.


Dinner had been late, and while waiting for it, his uncle, who had been drinking even more than usual, was alternately sitting and pacing the front porch. And Garner, who by this point was avoiding his uncle, stood in the front hallway, watching the man pace back and forth, past the open front door with just the screen door closed.


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