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    By Keith Hale

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    Keith Hale explores the relationship between gay and straight best friends in this sparse, moving story. Chris has been in love with his best friend Jimmy since childhood. While Chris is at college, Jimmy is sent to prison. Now Jimmy is free once more and the two meet again. Chris, or "Topi," as Jimmy calls him, begins to understand that Jimmy is not the only one who has made mistakes. With eyes wide open, both men re-examine their friendship.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWatersgreen House
    Release dateJul 3, 2020
    ISBN9780463938768
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    Keith Hale

    Keith Hale grew up in central Arkansas and Waco, Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Following a five-year career as a journalist in Austin, Amsterdam, and Little Rock, Hale earned a Ph.D. in literature from Purdue and took a position teaching British and Philippine literature at the University of Guam. Hale writes both fiction and scholarly works including his groundbreaking novel Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (Cody), first published in the Netherlands, and Friends and Apostles, his edition of Rupert Brooke's letters published by Yale University Press, London.

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      He got me. I knew it was a short story be for I read it, but once I started to read, I was into the moment with them.
      It could have come on stronger, maybe, but it was sweet, Once it ended I was disappointed but In a good way.
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    A short story by

    Keith Hale

    © 2022 by Keith Hale

    All rights reserved. International copyright secured.

    6 x 9 (15.24 x 22.86 cm) 

    Black & White on Cream paper

    BISAC: Fiction / Literary /

    BISAC: Fiction / Gay

    No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior written permission of both the copyright holder and the publisher. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or any other means without permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Purchase only authorized electronic editions.

    Watersgreen House, Publishers.

    Audiobook Blue South © by Keith Hale. Narrated by Steven Ray Seguin. Recorded and produced in Salt Lake City by Steven Ray Seguin and Keith Hale.

    All characters in this book are fictional. Any resemblance to any persons living or dead is coincidental. Any real entities such as universities, townships, and athletic teams appearing within these pages do not imply cooperation with or endorsement of or by the author, publisher, or work.

    Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, as well as contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative.

    Visit us at watersgreen.wix.com/watersgreenhouse

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    Chapter One

    I never did like to know what a new day would bring.

    Jimmy wrote that line to me from prison. He spent seventeen years behind bars for the armed robbery of a Pizza Inn where he once worked.

    Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!

    Stupid!

    Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

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