I read it. You're right. It got weird, but you captured the havoc really well. You also captured the sexual exploration that so many friends wish they could do with one another. College is the time when a lot of us tried/experimented with all sorts of things. Cody just didn't know when to stop.
Once again, you played beautifully with my perceptions of gender. I thought it was two boys in the story (and it felt wonderfully homo-erotic in that) until the very end. And even after I'd read it through the first time, I thought that somehow the narrator had gotten custody of Cody's son after Cody had died, but only after a re-read did I realize that the narrator was female and the child was hers and Cody's.
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Once again, you played beautifully with my perceptions of gender. I thought it was two boys in the story (and it felt wonderfully homo-erotic in that) until the very end. And even after I'd read it through the first time, I thought that somehow the narrator had gotten custody of Cody's son after Cody had died, but only after a re-read did I realize that the narrator was female and the child was hers and Cody's.
Nicely done.
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