From Queer To Eternity

i’m reading a very manly 1950s account of a hunt for el dorado but i’m thirty pages in and the narrator has already described his traveling companion as “handsome” 4 times, “extremely handsome” twice, “exceedingly handsome” once, his voice as “quietly husky” and “a husky whisper,” his fingers as long and deft, his body as “tall and cat-like,” and his eyes as some variation of ice-blue at least three times.

“Ever since he had aimed that gun at my throat, I had liked him immensely. And now I liked him even better.”

“I awoke when a beam of light fell across my eyes. Jorge had come into my room carrying a lighted candle.

Too afraid to feel something so she chooses to feel nothing.

All the hearts in the world and I only want yours