By Tomkin Watts, in Fiction. 04/19/2026 (Updated: 04/19/2026)
Today, with modern treatment and prevention, we often forget about AIDS and the toll it took upon the gay community. At the end of a long trip, Robert's final stopover is Minneapolis. There, he encounters a friend of a friend who had fallen to AIDS twenty-five years earlier. This is a sad story, and was difficult to write, and I've kept it on the back burner for over a year. Dedicated to a close friend who passed thirty-two years ago on his favorite holiday, Halloween.
This story completes a trilogy, following "A Class Reunion" and "Love, In the Ashes of Time."
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