LOVE, AXEL
Word count: 1,160 wordsLOVE, AXELI picked up the photo from a bundle of trash I’d just unloaded from my filing cabinets, and on the back was scrawled, “Love, Axel.” He’d been an introvert, I was an extrovert, and maybe that’s why we got along so well. Also, I was female and he was a gay man, and I’ve always thought gay men had a better understanding of women than straight men do.I was immediately swept back in time at the moment when I snatched the photo from the trash. I was living in Boston...