Adult Content Warning
This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.
-
Tags
Summary
The white boarded house sat across the street, newly tenanted for the fourth time in as many years. Its wide windows faced west into the heat of the sun, transforming the house into a furnace every summer and forcing its occupants to move on.
The teenager paused from mowing the lawn and wiped his brow, watching several women carry boxes and bags from their cars into the house. There didn't seem to be any men this time. One of them stopped, saw him looking and waved. He smiled and waved back. It was only right to be friendly. He returned to his labours, thinking nothing more of it.
-
Coming of age fantasy, in which a youth in 1980s Australia learns to embrace his manhood and shed the chains of religious puritanism. Will be adding chapters when I write them :)