Did anyone else around here read the story when it first came out?
Absolutely! Of course! I've been subscribing to
TNY since the early 1980s.
Tell you what, though. I really can't say any more
why I read it or
what drove me to read it, since, like Larry McMurtry, I don't generally read the short fiction. Perhaps I just recognized Annie Proulx's name and was curious. Perhaps I skimmed it and picked up on the male-male love theme. I really can't say.