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Come as a Guest
A Literary Fiction Short Story by Celia Laskey
Subgenres:
- LGBTQ+ Fiction,
- Small-Town Fiction,
- Closeted Identity
This book is for you if you're into...
- Closeted queer stories set in ultra-conservative small towns
- Internet connections that spark risky self-discovery
- Literary fiction grappling with impossible personal choices
This story was originally published in Day One, a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers.
According to the polls, Big Burr, Kansas, is the most homophobic town in the United States. Gabe has spent seventeen long years of marriage there, hiding his homosexuality behind the facade of small-town, gun-toting family man. But after a nonprofit task force arrives to spread tolerance to the citizens of Big Burr, he begins to find it harder and harder to keep his secret buried.
Then Gabe meets someone on the Internet who goes by the alias "PB Tall Guy." Desperate to meet him yet hindered by the fear of losing everything, Gabe wavers between revealing his true self and continuing to be something he’s not. How long will he be able to bear the weight of such a massive secret?
Sharp and empathetic, Come as a Guest hints at the fact that, ultimately, there is no perfect choice.
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