PR-219 Deep Lavender

Foreword

Gavin spotted his future lying on a rock, sunbathing. It had the form of a nude male figure, and it could only be Adrian. His mind reeling, he lurched forward to meet his fate… or his doom.

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In his book, The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm writes: “Love can inspire the wish for sexual union; in this case the physical relationship is lacking in greediness, in a wish to conquer or be conquered, but is blended with tenderness. If the desire for physical union is not stimulated by love, if erotic love is not also brotherly love, it never leads to union in more than an orgiastic, transitory sense.” Gavin wanted a permanent relationship or nothing at all, and he was willing to take his own life for this belief. The pills were his last escape before final doom, and then somehow, through the fog in his mind, he recognized his love in the shape of a man called Adrian. Terror gripped, him as he saw his beloved run away…