You Are the One

Gay lovers create temporary refuges from adversity in this collection of stories by Scott D. Pomfret. Exploring gay relationships both temporary and happy-ever-after (and a few somewhere in between), these stories depict the bonds gay men forge when Egyptian political unrest, drugs, HIV/AIDS, anonymous sex, the Church, incoming shells, a roadside IED or a demanding T-ball schedule put their commitments to the test. As the narrator of the title story says, “we often swear to go in one direction and the next moment chart a course toward another end entirely.” These are the heartbreaking stories that reflect those zigs and zags.