My Pre-Bucket List

Sex isn't the way Derek Murdock experienced it when he first came out, when HIV was the most frightening possibility during any encounter. With COVID, even condoms might not protect. Simply being in the same room with another person could transmit the virus. And, given mask-resistant commuters, science-denying shoppers, and lax coworkers, that could even include a guy's own husband, if he's lucky enough to have one!Which Derek doesn't. So what's an unattached, libidinous man supposed to do?Especially in a political atmosphere where surviving the volatile election season in one piece isn't guaranteed.Derek won't let his diagnosis of pre-leukemia force him to accept his fate any earlier than necessary, but he does grant that perhaps it's time to come up with a pre-bucket list.And check as many men off it as he safely can.