Was it transsexuality?"Would they become effeminate?" I asked."That I would never know, no they, for death was assured as so too thewilting of the sum...er rose, and so too the fat lamb goes to slaughter"Said he smilingI knelt next to him in the rancid hay as he was again pinning them down,my knees dirty, my bare legs tanned and shapely in my small tight summershorts. I wanted a closer look, to understand, I could smell his weakaftershave, I could smell his sweat, I could smell his heavy breath.. Roundworm Records was our favorite record store, partly due to its choice location, equidistant from the nearest bus stop and the finest crack west of the East Side, and partly due to its selective inventory-you could be sure you would never have to wade through any shitty popular releases before getting to wade through all of the shitty indie releases. I stumbled after Vivian toward the barred-up doors of Roundworm, and formed a line which at its peak would consist of me, Vivian, and a guy. “Sorry about that. Let’s go get you some clothes and food,” Taylor said, opening the door to the room and gesturing for her to head out in front of him.The desk guy started to give Taylor the stink eye again as he walked into the small lobby but smoothed the expression out as soon as Taylor turned and headed toward the desk. Taylor wondered if the guy actually thought no one noticed the little looks he kept giving.“Is there somewhere in this town we can buy clothes? And is there somewhere to. We wondered that’s all. We wondered what it would be like to touch you.’ He said, ‘But you touched me yesterday! We shook hands, I remember. Nothing spectacular happened then!’ Emmy replied, ‘We can keep this under lock and key if we want. We couldn’t go around feeling like this every time we shake hands with someone now, could we? But today we just let it happen. We needed to know, E-man. We are even willing to have a spy in our midst. But we had to touch you.’ Eamon felt he was sinking deeply.