Friday Excerpt: True Tales
I have a couple of really big projects in the works right now. Two novels on the horizon! While I’m busy working on those, here’s another excerpt from my little book of true stories
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“I’ll call you tonight when I get back,” he said and I kissed him through his car window.
He didn’t call that night. Though he had been calling me every single night, a week went by without a word. I knew already that he had no intention of continuing with me, but I wanted him to be man enough to say it. I called him on the next Sunday and left a voicemail. I calmly told him that I would like an explanation for his disappearing. He did call back and he said that the distance was too much.
I knew that it was just an easy excuse for him. He didn’t want to tell me why he didn’t like me in person. I felt utterly crushed. This was the first person with a disability that I had ever gone out with, this was my first test of devness in real life (and he knew that I was a dev, I told him all about that early in our email conversations). Even though sex hadn’t quite worked, it was still the most satisfying sexual experience I had ever had.
His rejection felt like a pronouncement about me and my entire future. It felt like he had been my one chance to feel okay about being a dev and he had declared it not okay.
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Great excerpt! Thank you for sharing with us. I love this internal dialogue we get from the narrator’s mind…it’s intriguing to read the point of view of the person going out with the man who has a disability. I would feel frustrated and upset too if he didn’t call!
The style of this book is definitely different from what I usually do. Not many of my stories are first person and this being memoir, well, it’s very personal! I did a variety of five stories in the book, but I’ve dated many, many disabled men and the vast majority of them end exactly this way, with the man saying he will call and then vanishing forever. I guess that’s just how dating goes!