Maybe this is a little rat reading too much into things, but I think the word "platonic" is like "the lady doth protest too much" and the narrator perhaps wishes otherwise.
And I love the language that balances both beautiful prose ("the twilight stretching to starlight") with relatability in dialog and thoughts ("No thanks on the hellhole.")
Thanks so much! That’s not what my intentions were as a queer writer—I don’t hide sexual orientation in metaphor—but you are not the first to have that interpretation and likely not the last. I’m okay with it being that for people.
Maybe this is a little rat reading too much into things, but I think the word "platonic" is like "the lady doth protest too much" and the narrator perhaps wishes otherwise.
And I love the language that balances both beautiful prose ("the twilight stretching to starlight") with relatability in dialog and thoughts ("No thanks on the hellhole.")
Thanks so much! That’s not what my intentions were as a queer writer—I don’t hide sexual orientation in metaphor—but you are not the first to have that interpretation and likely not the last. I’m okay with it being that for people.