Story: 'Godoy Lives' by Daniel Chacón

Nobody is gay in Godoy Lives, by Daniel Chacón, except maybe -- maybe -- the dead guy in the first sentence. But it's as gay a story as I've ever read. You want to know how it feels, and what it means, to live in the closet? Here you go.

Juan's cousin wrote what he knew of the dead guy. He was from Jalisco. Not married. Some called him maricón because they suspected he was gay, but no one knew for sure.

The age of the man was the same as Juan's, 24, and the picture on the green card strikingly similar, sunken cheeks, small forehead, tiny, deep-set eyes that on Juan looked as if everything scared him, but that on the dead guy looked focused, confident. "You could use this to come work here," his cousin wrote.

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