“Boy, A History”

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“In line in the cafeteria, at his favorite table in the library, on the last block before the block he lives on, the inside of Boy’s head is one blank notebook page after another.”

At Guernica, Roxane Gay guest-edited Rumpus contributor Saeed Jones’s short story “Boy, A History”, a bleak tale of one high schooler’s plight in discovering his sexuality.

Julie Morse lives in San Francisco and is an elementary school poetry teacher. She can be reached at julie.mmorse at gmail.com and @JulieMorse16 . More from this author →