Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour, a finalist for the 2013 Oregon Book Award, and the editor of Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity. He is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award, a project grant from Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the Arts. He teaches in the low-residency MFA programs at Eastern Oregon University and West Virginia Wesleyan College.
He smiled, shyly, and then came toward Evan, and although in the red light the scars on Evan’s chest were not visible, Billy found them and kissed them.