For the two i’s at the end, slight figures of two men on their sides, pressed against each other, the dots as their heads. What do you love most about your husband?Who asks their side piece a question like that? He’d be perfectly content.It’s a design flaw of modern cities that there are so few active volcanoes, he thinks, nodding off, kissing Alex’s back. Gay sex Alex knows the artist, of course, but all Brick can think about is the wonder of perspective; how amazing it must have been when Renaissance artists realized they could use triangles to make the viewer focus on what was important and allow the rest to fade into the background. In their room Brick showers, and then Alex, leaving Brick to settle into the cool white sheets.Brick glances at Alex’s notebook, lying open where he tossed it next to his phone charger. They could do a tour of them, he guesses, and begins to count off those he can think of. Looking back, is there some theme to what you’d do differently if you had them to do over again?” Brick had smiled at the sly question.
