Quite lovely Longing, and by extension, After the Flood, Editor's Commentary love at Midwestern Gothic.

For real, here, yes, lovely, totally. Excerpt? Word. 

"It’s a familiar scene to most folks, neighbors spending time together with their kids. But underneath that runs the protagonists desire for something different than what he’s got now. Is it freedom, is it the separateness that alcohol brings, or is it acting on the sexual tension he perceives between himself and the other husband?"

It’s a familiar scene to most folks, neighbors spending time together with their kids. But underneath that runs the protagonists desire for something different than what he’s got now. Is it freedom, is it the separateness that alcohol brings, or is it acting on the sexual tension he perceives between himself and the other husband? - See more at: http://jeffpfaller.com/2015/02/midwestern-gothic-issue-16-editors-commentary#sthash.Hjnqjcao.dpuf

It’s a familiar scene to most folks, neighbors spending time together with their kids. But underneath that runs the protagonists desire for something different than what he’s got now. Is it freedom, is it the separateness that alcohol brings, or is it acting on the sexual tension he perceives between himself and the other husband? - See more at: http://jeffpfaller.com/2015/02/midwestern-gothic-issue-16-editors-commentary#sthash.Hjnqjcao.dpuf

It’s a familiar scene to most folks, neighbors spending time together with their kids. But underneath that runs the protagonists desire for something different than what he’s got now. Is it freedom, is it the separateness that alcohol brings, or is it acting on the sexual tension he perceives between himself and the other husband? - See more at: http://jeffpfaller.com/2015/02/midwestern-gothic-issue-16-editors-commentary#sthash.Hjnqjcao.dpuf

It’s a familiar scene to most folks, neighbors spending time together with their kids. But underneath that runs the protagonists desire for something different than what he’s got now. Is it freedom, is it the separateness that alcohol brings, or is it acting on the sexual tension he perceives between himself and the other husband? - See more at: http://jeffpfaller.com/2015/02/midwestern-gothic-issue-16-editors-commentary#sthash.Hjnqjcao.dpuf