The doctor led him to an empty room where he told him Michael had been taken to the morgue. Ellis said, Why? Is that normal? And the doctor said, Under the circumstances it’s normal. What circumstances? said Ellis. We found a cluster of lesions down his right side. Kaposi— —I know what they’re called, said Ellis. Michael had AIDS,
The one word that will make me cry on sight is AIDS. I have a soft spot in my heart for the gay community when it comes to the AIDS crisis we had not so very long ago. Any story that includes cases where AIDS is discussed or is in any way an attribute to the characters or story will usually captivate me.
