A boy I sometimes saw at the shelter… They took him to a club for his first heat. They even promised to pay him. He came out of there after the heat and jumped the next day.” “Jumped?” I mumbled. I didn’t know why I asked. It was obvious. “From the Stargaze Bridge, above the train track.” I squeezed my eyes shut. Ten days of continuous heat rape and forced knotting by different men. Of course, he’d jumped. Who wouldn’t have?
