Short Fiction: Father D

Once, having just skimmed through a pre-underlined copy of Lolita, I confessed to Father D. that I’d done something forbidden and horribly sinful. Read James Cortese's story about a crush on a priest.

By James Cortese

Childhood—here’s what I hated about it. I hated the way you had to be like everyone else. Hated the way you had to pretend to like what you really hated. And most of all, I hated how all the clocks ran so annoyingly slow. On top of all that, I was the wrong sex. Boys got to do what they wanted. Girls had to do what was expected.

Dad was a…