Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Spirit Lake: The House Next Door pt.1

When my husband Zack decided to move us to Spirit Lake, I thought it was a horrible idea. What would a small town in central Illinois have to offer a newly married gay couple from New York?

Still, the place gave him a chance to live out his dream.
He wanted to open a bookstore.
You couldn’t open a bookstore in a big city. Bookstores were dead, replaced first by big box stores like Borders, and then when those died, the internet took over.

In a town like Spirit Lake he could live his dream.
The town was small, and thrived off of tourists looking to get away.
Nothing helped sitting on the beach more than a paperback, or a best seller.
Spirit Lake was Zack’s ideal.

When we got married I vowed for better or for worse, for richer or poorer.
Agreeing to the move was one way of living up to my vows.


So, here I am, Darren Hart-Willis, a new addition to a small town.

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