Crisco-Slicked Fastballs and Gay Dads

An international man of mystery meets his match

James Finn
CROSSIN(G)ENRES
Published in
9 min readApr 4, 2019

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A gay man with a bent wrist and a Crisco-slicked fastball —

That’s me, darlings! It took a broken lawnmower, a 13-year-old boy, and some trampled daffodils to figure out that shortening is useful for more than just greasing baking sheets and well … never…

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.