[In Progress] [8k] [Literary Fiction / Queer Coming-of-Age] OLD FIRM EYES
Opening two chapters of a literary coming-of-age novel set in East End Glasgow in 1997, centred around football culture, sectarianism, masculinity and queer identity.
Blurb:
In 1990s Glasgow, football is more than a game — it’s family, faith, and the line you don’t cross.
When Jamie Callaghan returns to the East End after five years in Ireland, he finds the city unchanged. The chants are louder. The rivalries deeper. And Ryan Kerr — the Rangers-supporting boy he once fought and kissed — is still here.
What begins as violent rivalry slowly turns into secret meetings in an abandoned hut, forcing both boys to confront something neither of them has the words for.
Old Firm Eyes is a coming-of-age novel about masculinity, sectarianism, and the things boys learn to bury to survive.
Happy to DM the Google Doc to anyone interested in reading.