Mark Anthony Holland

A gay coming of age short story set in Sydney

I was about fifteen, maybe sixteen, something like that. My body had just about lost all traces of past puppy fat as it stretched across longer limbs and developing muscle. As a schoolboy I was only now beginning to notice the attention I was getting from the girls around my own age. I even imagined that some men shared that interest. After all this was Sydney. And I knew some men in Sydney were like that. I remember the exact day and every detail of that afternoon. I was on my usual train comi