Portrait of the Artist as a Young Swamp Thing by Ann Zeddies, is is her YA contemporary journey of self discovery short story with m/m romantic elements about a gay teen's summer vacation during which he comes to the obligatory realization of previously unrealized things about himself, free courtesy of LGBT specialty publisher Lethe Press.
Apparently, this does not come with a moment of revelation sparked by the inspiration of DC/Vertigo's eponymous comic book character (although I haven't actually read it, so maybe it does feature a touching heart-to-uh-phloem-I-guess with Alec Holland).
Currently free (and DRM-free) @
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK and pretty much everywhere else they sell worldwide, since this is being done via the KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)
Description
Artistic Shane had hoped to spend his vacation looking cool and impressing the cool kids, but instead he’s stuck with his parents in a lakeside house...and being forced to share his room with Chase, a family friend whom he doesn’t remember as anyone interesting at all. But Shane cannot deny that since last they met Chase has become rather handsome. But why is Chase so obsessed with the local frogs? Why can't he be more normal, more like the other guys? But the boys have a lot more in common than Shane understands at first, and only slowly does he realize they might share something special.