Chapter 14

“Give it to me.” He held out his hand, and Elian reluctantly pulled out a folded paper from his pocket and gave it to Dimitri. It was three sheets he’d stapled together and folded a million times. “Okay, here we go.”

Dimitri started reading. It was a quick introduction to the theme of love in literature, Elian talked about authors Dimitri had never heard of and how love was portrayed from a female and a male perspective. He talked about how it had evolved over the centuries, how the goal had changed, how it was no longer a woman’s life ambition to get married, and how the modern woman demanded a happily ever after, or she’d divorce her husband, and how it had changed love in fiction. Toward the end, he touched on queer love stories getting more room, how heteronormativity did not always rule, and how fiction, albeit a small niche, took it as far as to allow men to get pregnant.

“That’s the mpreg story talking.” Elian winced.

“That’s what it means? Men getting pregnant?”