Red, White & Royal Blue

by Casey McQuiston

“And you are good. Most things are awful most of the time, but you’re good.”

History, huh? Bet we could make some.

He wants to match the new freckles across Henry’s nose to the stars above them and make him name the constellations.

You and me and history, remember? We’re just gonna fucking fight. Because you’re it, okay? I’m never gonna love anybody in the world like I love you.

your spine’s a ridge i’d die climbing.

“So,” she says. “Do you feel forever about him?” And there’s no room left to agonize over it, nothing left to do but say the thing he’s known all along. “Yeah,” he says, “I do.”

This is it. October 2, 2020, and the whole world watched, and history remembered.

History will remember us.