Beginnings And Ends (Short Story) - Plot & Excerpts
The second thing he did was search for his husband, Robin. This evening he found him up in their bedroom, lying facedown on their bed, his jacket still on, fast asleep. Robin’s character was having a really rough week. The good news was that Shadowland, the Art-Urban-written-and-directed series in which Robin played a closeted gay A-list actor named Joe Laughlin, was a bigger hit than ever. The bad news was that playing Joe for all these years had sucked the energy out of Robin. Yes, it was a wonderful, challenging role. And yes, Robin was brilliant, giving a nuanced performance that got him Emmy and Golden Globe noms galore. But slipping inside the skin of an alcoholic, substance-abusing, self-loathing, fear-driven, craven man was not the easiest thing for Robin to do, day after day, year after year. Particularly when Joe was on a downward spiral. Joe’s manager was urging the actor to get married to some female starlet, to quash some rumors that weren’t really rumors at all. Jules checked the clock on the bedside table—it was barely 1830.
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