Emergency Contact

"Emergency contact means primary. It means you're the person who matters most. And I'm never that for anyone."

Silas is aromantic, an artist, and resigned to being forever adjacent in other people's lives. While everyone around them finds romantic partners and traditional futures, Silas maintains casual hookups, creates sculptures about connection, and accepts that being someone's emergency contact is a privilege reserved for people who do romance.

Then Maren-a romance-positive poet with a gi...