Monster (Fourteen Years Earlier)
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THE BOY WAS no longer a child, but not quite yet a grown man.
He’d been aware of his own sexuality for a few years now, though his s****l experience had been limited to the few erotic passages he’d found in the books he’d been allowed to read by authors such as James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and Henry Miller. He’d read them over and over, imagining himself in the place of the male character, and ejaculating into pieces of tissue he then hurriedly flushed down the toilet.
His contact with other people remained limited, mainly to his father’s staff bringing his meals to him. Occasionally, he’d been allowed to sit in the massive kitchen and eat quickly, though if he attempted to speak with anyone, or make eye contact, somehow his father would know an
