Название: All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories Of Queer Teens Throughout The Ages
Автор: Saundra Mitchell
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Книги для детей: прочее
isbn: 9781474074674
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BUT LOOK AT HIS—
Think of the least arousing things possible. Gutted herring in the market. Spilled sewage in the greasy snow outside the Wolf’s Head. The old woman who begs outside the church with a mouth full of rotted teeth she sometimes spits at my sister and me like melon seeds.
“If you would change, please, Hendrickszoon,” van der Loos calls, and I start, nearly crushing my charcoal between my fingers—I hadn’t realized we had started to sketch. Joost sits up, letting one leg dangle off the sofa and giving me another eyeful of his crotch that sends all the blood fleeing my head.
Maybe if I faint, van der Loos will let me go home. Maybe if I throw up, he’ll let me leave early. Maybe if I keel over dead they’ll bury me in the churchyard with “Here lies Constantijn, slain by the first penis he saw that wasn’t his own.”
I look at my parchment. I completed nothing from his first pose. I start to scribble frantically, tracing out the arch of his back just to get something on the page. My heartbeat is sitting in my hands—the few strokes I manage are palsied. I look around at the other apprentices, hoping at least one of them will look as uncomfortable as I am and my own fumbling can be passed off as something other than unholy lust. They all seem focused, and the room is quiet but for the soft shush of charcoal on parchment. Beside me, Augustus bends so close to his sketch that his nose seems likely to smudge the charcoal.
“Constantijn, what are you doing?”
I start so spectacularly my charcoal skates across the page, leaving a long black smudge. Van der Loos is standing over me, frowning at my board.
“Sketching, sir.”
“You have yet to finish a figure.”
“It’s difficult.”
“How so?”
“Different. Than the women. The anatomy,” I tack on hastily.
Van der Loos’s frown deepens. “Constantijn, are you well?”
“Yes, sir.”
“You look feverish.”
“It’s very hot in here, sir.”
“Perhaps you’d prefer to sit by the window.”
“Oh, God, no,” I say, too quickly, and van der Loos frowns at me. “It would disrupt my angles,” I say, instead of explaining that sitting by the window would give me a view that is far more full frontal than my current.
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