MEN IN SHORTS
I try to think of something to say back to him, something sharp to diffuse the seriousness of this moment, something watery to drown it in. But nothing poignant arrives; it must be held up in traffic, distracted by the high-beamed headlights of Clay’s eyes, by the sizzling car wreck we now have between us. Instead, I stare at his slightly trembling lips and all I can think of is a simple truth that slaps me hard in the face, a sentiment plump with poetry and lust: I used to be inside of you.
While signing copies of his revealing first novel, a middle-aged author is confronted by the very inspiration for his book: Clay Fitzgerald Miller, of the improbable name and the impossible eyes, still unearthly green after so many years.
Back in 1993 Chicago, where the chiseled trunks of Calvin Klein hunks towered over Halsted, love was in the air and Clay was in the intersection between the club Vortex and 7-11, where sparks were about to fly, virginities were about to be lost, and a whole new world was about to be discovered.
MEN IN SHORTS reveals the full story of Parr’s protagonist first introduced in his Tennessee Williams Award-Winning Short HOW TO SURVIVE OVERWHELMING LOSS & LONELINESS IN 5 EASY STEPS.