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Scenes unfold through overheard conversations, sharp interpersonal dynamics, and the friction between adult presence and youth space. A group of teens voices frustrations about parents, while a dispute over assumptions and context escalates when a drag queen makes an ominous reminder about performance timing. The story blends humor, discomfort, and belonging.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nThe Same Flesh  \nCopyright © 2026 Gregory Ashe  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, stored in any retrieval system, or transmiĴed in any form by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise—without prior wriĴen permission of the publisher, except as provided by United States of America copyright law. For permission requests and  \nall other inquiries, contact: [contact@hodgkinandblount.com](contact@hodgkinandblount.com)  \n[Published by Hodgkin & Blount](Published by Hodgkin & Blount)[ ](Published by Hodgkin & Blount)hĴ[ps://www.hodgkinandblount.com/](ps://www.hodgkinandblount.com/)[ ](ps://www.hodgkinandblount.com/)[contact@hodgkinandblount.com](contact@hodgkinandblount.com)  \nCover art by Reese Dante  \nCover content is for illustrative purposes only. Any person depicted on the cover is a model.  \nPublished 2026  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nVersion 1.04  \nTrade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-63621-139-8  \neBook ISBN: 978-1-63621-138-1  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nMan is a wolf to other men.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n“He doesn’t get me at all,” Daniel said.  \nThe boy—the young man—was siĴing in a cluster of teens: a girl with her head shaved, a different girl with her hair dyed green, a boy with a T-shirt that said GAY THE PRAY AWAY, and a longlimbed boy with doe eyes. As usual, the kids had taken over the tower room—what they called the low-ceilinged room at the front of the pseudo-Victorian house. Daniel was leaning against the doe-eyed boy’s shoulder in a way that might have been friendly or might have been more than friendly; it was impossible to tell.  \nTean, observing from the second-floor landing, suspected that might be the point.  \nIn response to Daniel’s announcement, the other kids stirred up in excitement.  \n“My dad’s so toxic,” the boy in the T-shirt said, as though agreeing with Daniel.  \nThe girl with the shaved head said,“My mom wants me to take sewing lessons. Seriously—lessons!”  \nThe girl with her hair dyed green and the doe-eyed boy both began to speak at the same time, and the conversation picked up steam as the teens vented what sounded—to Tean, anyway—like typical teenage complaints: my parents don’t understand me, my parents are so dumb, my parents are so mean.  \nOn the other hand, at Rainbow House—a support center for queer teens—those complaints tended to have more substance behind them.  \n“Maybe I should take sewing lessons,” Jem said as he joined Teanat the doorway.  \n“Maybe you should,” Tean said. He chose not to bring up the, quote, matching pajamas Jem had tried to make for him and Scipio.“We got that free sewing machine.”  \n“We don’t know that it was free.”  \n“Babe.” Jem’s groan was mostly exasperation. “It was siĴing on the curb. It’s not like I broke into an old lady’s house and mugged her.”  \n“I’m just saying we don’t know. We’ll never know. Maybe whoever owned it sold it for—for soup money, and it was one of those Facebook Marketplace things, and she got her grandson to carry it down to the curb, and then you took it, and the deal fell through, and she didn’t get any soup money, and she called her grandson for help, but he couldn’t do anything because he hurt his back carrying it down to the curb, and she was too proud to ask anyone else for help, so she probably starved to death.”  \nJem slurped from a McDonald’s cup for a few moments, his blond eyebrows kniĴed together. And then, holding up a finger, he said,“What if it was a man?”  \n“What?”  \n“What if it was a man who owned the sewing machine and put it down by the curb?”  \nTean stared at him.  \n“Ah ha!” Jem shouted. 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