Red, White & Royal Blue

by Casey McQuiston

Straight people, he thinks, probably don’t spend this much time convincing themselves they’re straight.

Here lies Prince Henry of Wales. He died as he lived: avoiding plans and sucking cock.

A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundational years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they’re inaccessible. You must invent an entirely new system.