Book 5: Two Dogs Position
A few weeks after Easter, the city gave each of its workers a salt-packed Smithfield ham to celebrate a hundred days accident free in the workplace. Vic Braunson lugged the fifteen-pound slab of meat, wrapped in burlap, home to his apartment, where he thumped it on the dining room table. In the kitchen, his lover Matt diLorenzo looked up from the onion burgers he was grilling on the stove. “Where’d you get that?” he asked with a laugh.
“We all got one.” Vic shrugged out of his work shirt, balled it up, and tossed it to the floor. As he started to unbuckle his belt, he admitted, “I don’t know what we’ll do with it. It’s too damn big to eat. Nice of them to give it out after the holiday.”
Leaving the burgers to sputter in their pan, Matt came over to the table to
