FL-75 Jock Man

Excerpt

“Steel has brought out a guest this weekend,” Louis carefully announces. From the tone of his voice, Charles can tell that his friend is not pleased with this. Charles knows already that Louis does not approve of Bill Steel, a quiet, masculine type, very unlike most of their more obvious friends. And Louis usually does not like any guests at all, except his own.

“What’s the guest like?” Charles asks curiously.

“Looks like a hustler to me. Young, a lot of muscles, but nothing else as far as I’m concerned.”

Hmm! Sounds interesting, Charles thinks. He and Louis have distinctively different tastes in boys. If Louis doesn’t like someone, it is a good sign that Charles might.

Once in the house, Charles immediately exchanges his street clothes for a pair of swim trunks. Then he makes it over to the living room bar, where he mixes his sixth vodka-and-tonic of the afternoon.

“Why isn’t the music playing?” he asks Louis. “This place is like a morgue.” Then he goes over to the phonograph, on the spindle of which he places five show tune albums. “Funny Girl” is the first. It’s the big hit of the island this summer.