Chapter 14Josh looked out the crack in the curtain. A full moon tonight, he drifted back to Quebec and the sea. As Steve appeared on the sidewalk and strutted across the yard, Josh’s ocean memories swelled up around the swagger. Steve swayed like some tall ship sailing. Josh often wandered on these shores.
For him, the ocean epitomized romance. Once while on tour with no show that day, he strolled through some dunes and came upon a hidden beach. There he met a like-minded man. Alone, they made love in the surf. Cold and gritty, nothing like the movies, it fell short of expectation. Yet with Steve, Josh’s maritime fantasy revived just as he’d imagined it in warm waters and soft sands. Whether the sea summoned Steve for him, or Steve invoked for him the sea, to Josh, they were intertwined a
