Do you remember

David & Jonathan is currently showing as part of the From-Home Fest through Nov 3 and will be included in the upcoming issue of the voidspace zine.

I’m really proud of this piece! It’s sincere, it’s queer, it’s trans, it’s romantic, it’s got Big Feelings and I think it’s a pretty damn fun way to spend some time.

Read a sample of the play-script below, and check out the whole piece for free!

DAVID
Do you remember dressing me in your junior high football uniform?

You dug deep into your closet and pulled out a box. You held up each of the pieces, wrinkling your nose at the sour smell. And I breathed in deep, antsy, trying to keep myself from getting too jumpy. You handed them over then turned around, not even a little bit awkward about it.

I felt embarrassed and jumped into it as fast as I could. It was way too small for you at that point, but still too big for me. But it made my shoulders look huge and I felt proud, so proud, earnestly proud, mortifyingly proud at the new space I took up.

I thought it was a joke at first, you making me try it on. Not a mean joke, but like a game. Pretend. I thought we’d laugh. And that would’ve been fine, it would’ve been enough. But I looked in the mirror. And I saw you seeing me seeing myself in the mirror and something in your expression said everything neither of us were brave enough to acknowledge.

You know… they probably wouldn’t let me play if I was in high school now? I think about that a lot. Two steps forward, one step back. Or maybe it’s one forward, two back. It’s hard to know when you’re in it, I guess.

But when you looked at me, it was like you saw me, really saw me, for the first time. I knew something had moved for both of us, even if we didn’t know how to talk about it.