Hostage: A Short Story

By Randy Boyd

LeRon, a young black man, is fed up with being called a sissy, having HIV/AIDS and rap music. After getting bad news from the doctor, he heads home, grabs his father's gun and holds his two older brothers hostage in their childhood bedroom. A standoff ensues as LeRon confronts his brothers (at gunpoint) and tries to hold them accountable for making him a sissy and being afraid of him and his virus. And rap music.

A short story originally published in the 1991 anthology, "Certain Voices," edited by Darryl Pilcher.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Randy Boyd
• Release date: Aug 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781931875202

Randy Boyd

Randy Boyd’s four novels have been nominated for five Lambda Literary Awards. His writings cover a diverse range of subjects, including sports, politics, race, the gay community, HIV/AIDS, his dog, President Obama, and Trikke carving vehicles, much of it on his blog, Randy Boyd's Blocks. His fiction has appeared in Blackfire magazine, as well as the following anthologies: Certain Voices (Alyson Books); Flesh and the Word 2 (Plume); Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (Other Countries); Flashpoint: Gay Male Sexual Writing (Masquerade Books), MA-KA: Diasporic Juks (Sister Vision); and Freedom in this Village: Black Gay Men's Writing 1969 to the Present (Carroll & Graf). His nonfiction has been featured in the Indiana Word, Frontiers Magazine, Au Courant, The Washington Blade, The James White Review, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Lambda Book Report, BeyondChron.com and the anthology Friends and Lovers: Gay Men Write About the Families They Create (Dutton). Randy has also been a contributor to Outsports.com and the publications of the Black AIDS Institute.

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