About Going Under

by Emily Moreton
16 pages / 3500 words
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Ethan and Connor wind up mostly naked in the shower together, but that's where the story ends. Going Under tells the rest of their story, from end to beginning, via annoying co-workers and strange British women. And for Connor, a young trans-man who's only recently finished transitioning, it's as much a story of finding the place where he belongs as it is of finding the person who belongs in that space with him.

Sample

Ethan said, "I know what to expect, I won't freak out."

I might. Ethan was only the second person Connor had brought home since his final surgery. "It's not about you."

Ethan sighed in Connor's ear, then rested his chin on Connor's shoulder. Connor leaned back into him, enjoying the feeling of being held -- Ethan was only a couple of inches taller than him, but muscled from five years working backstage in a theater. Solid in a way Connor wasn't. "What do you want?" Ethan asked.

A big part of Connor wanted to go back to an hour ago, when he'd been dancing with Ethan and said, "Come home with me." Or maybe to five weeks ago, when they'd started dating, or two months before that, when they'd first met.

He listened to the other part, instead: the part that had made him say yes to a date, made him explain who he was to Ethan, made him say, "Come home with me." The part of him that wanted this.

"Wait here, okay?"