My piece for the 2025 TMA Regency Boys calendar: Magnus and Fanshawe November. Hosta wrote a snippet to go along with it!
He puts the kindling in the fireplace.
He lights the match.
He’s going to rid himself of this vice, he swears.
But to what end? What good is paper turned to ash, in the face of the unknowable? What good is it in the face of love?
He lights a second match. The first has burned his fingertips.
He tosses the letters into the fire and knows he’s achieved nothing.
