New Brad Chapter: Confronting truth

James Finn
2 min readApr 24, 2020

Once Brad tested HIV positive, he needed to tell people. He started with me. It didn’t go well.

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Author’s Notes —

This chapter is very short, but packed with with import. I have little to say that can add to what’s already there. Writing this confrontation from Brad’s perspective was difficult. I have my own ideas about what he did and said, but I’ve tried to leave all that out of this.

I’m building a tag list to include people who’ve told me they want updates on this series or who have read the first chapters. If you don’t want a tag, please just let me know in a comment or email me at jamesfinnwrites@gmail.com. I’ll cheerfully remove you from the list.

— Jim

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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