We All Come Home Eventually is a story
that actually sprang directly from a line in chapter fourteen of
Antioch, where Aaron Dunn talks about how we all come home to what we
remember.
The character of Todd is someone that I
think a lot of people can relate to on a very basic level, much like
Aaron was. In a way, I think that he's sort of an evolution of Aaron,
though his ex boyfriend Ryan is certainly no Warren. He's an
emotionally abusive omnipresent source of ill feelings for Todd.
His best friend Mark is straight, and
he's a constant comfort in the story. I suppose that makes it the
opposite of Spin The Bottle, where the straight friend's intentions
are not as well-meaning in the end. I do look at the two stories at
almost mirrors of one another, both of them dark but for different
reasons.
The story is written in first person
present tense, which has become my standard way of writing since
Antioch. The unique spin I put on this story is that Todd tells the
story as though speaking it to Ryan, who is never otherwise in the
story more than a few brief mentions of him in passing.
The story has been up for a while, and
I've just now gotten around to writing the back story of it. I
suppose depression and a busy schedule have a lot to do with it, but
you'd think I'd learn to plan for those things.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy We All Come
Home Eventually, a short story by myself, Roman Theodore Brandt.
