Where Fiction and Reality Meet
"Where there is great love, there are also miracles." - Willa Sibert Cather Loving Luki Vasquez has always been pretty easy for me. For that matter, loving Sonny Bly James has been a non-effort too, because of their strength, because of the way they've fought courageously to get where they are, because now, six years... Continue Reading →
"Where there is great love, there are also miracles." - Willa Sibert Cather Loving Luki Vasquez has always been pretty easy for me. For that matter, loving Sonny Bly James has been a non-effort too, because of their strength, because of the way they've fought courageously to get where they are, because now, six years... Continue Reading →
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.” – Ernest Hemingway Jamie Samms’ Stained Glass is an emotionally turbulent story of survival, the story of Lawrence McKenna, a man who in the hands of the wrong Dom discovers that he is a... Continue Reading →
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.” – Ernest Hemingway Jamie Samms’ Stained Glass is an emotionally turbulent story of survival, the story of Lawrence McKenna, a man who in the hands of the wrong Dom discovers that he is a... Continue Reading →
“The people choose to call me a hero. I don’t think what I do is heroic. It’s just doing what’s right for those who are worse off than you.” – Icarus Sean Kennedy’s Wings of Equity is a cleverly steampunked tale filled with airships and flying trains, amazing machines and advanced technology, in a world... Continue Reading →
“The people choose to call me a hero. I don’t think what I do is heroic. It’s just doing what’s right for those who are worse off than you.” – Icarus Sean Kennedy’s Wings of Equity is a cleverly steampunked tale filled with airships and flying trains, amazing machines and advanced technology, in a world... Continue Reading →
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Arthur Baldwin Oscar Wilde once said, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Well, Jayden Walker and Graham “Gristle” Thistle may not live in the literal gutter, but... Continue Reading →
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Arthur Baldwin Oscar Wilde once said, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Well, Jayden Walker and Graham “Gristle” Thistle may not live in the literal gutter, but... Continue Reading →
“You’re alive. If you want I can fly.” – William Goldman In the midst of conflict and the horrors of war, there is quiet. There is a certain hush, a sense of peace and silence that can be found not in the arms of battle but in the arms of someone who holds the answers... Continue Reading →
“You’re alive. If you want I can fly.” – William Goldman In the midst of conflict and the horrors of war, there is quiet. There is a certain hush, a sense of peace and silence that can be found not in the arms of battle but in the arms of someone who holds the answers... Continue Reading →
“So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, an intolerable waiting, a longing for another place and time, another condition.” – Theodore Roethke Tyler Morris just wants to find someone who’s brave enough to hold his hand, someone who isn’t ashamed to be his boyfriend. He’s guarding his virtue, saving himself for just the right... Continue Reading →
“So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, an intolerable waiting, a longing for another place and time, another condition.” – Theodore Roethke Tyler Morris just wants to find someone who’s brave enough to hold his hand, someone who isn’t ashamed to be his boyfriend. He’s guarding his virtue, saving himself for just the right... Continue Reading →
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” – Seneca When you have a history of screwing things up, beginnings and endings are pretty well par for the course. When you have a history of preferring to be alone, it makes the screwing up part a lot easier. At least, that’s the case for... Continue Reading →
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” – Seneca When you have a history of screwing things up, beginnings and endings are pretty well par for the course. When you have a history of preferring to be alone, it makes the screwing up part a lot easier. At least, that’s the case for... Continue Reading →
“The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions.” – Unknown Alex Strauss thinks he knows his college roommate, Shannon Murray, pretty well. For instance, he knows for a fact that Shannon’s straight. Poor Alex got some rather unfortunate visual evidence of that. Alex also knows that it’s not totally unheard of for straight... Continue Reading →
“The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions.” – Unknown Alex Strauss thinks he knows his college roommate, Shannon Murray, pretty well. For instance, he knows for a fact that Shannon’s straight. Poor Alex got some rather unfortunate visual evidence of that. Alex also knows that it’s not totally unheard of for straight... Continue Reading →
“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz I learned so much as I watched Ari and Dante discover the secrets of their small corner of the vast universe. • I learned that feeling small and insignificant and inadequate doesn’t make it true. •... Continue Reading →
“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz I learned so much as I watched Ari and Dante discover the secrets of their small corner of the vast universe. • I learned that feeling small and insignificant and inadequate doesn’t make it true. •... Continue Reading →
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” – Dr. Seuss Well, Ty and Zane did an awful lot of saying what they felt in this installment of the Cut & Run series. I just did an awful lot of feeling what... Continue Reading →
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” – Dr. Seuss Well, Ty and Zane did an awful lot of saying what they felt in this installment of the Cut & Run series. I just did an awful lot of feeling what... Continue Reading →
“Death is like a minor speed bump in the journey of our souls.” – Ansh Das Always and Forever is an intimate and personal journey, one of self-discovery and spirituality, of grief and grace for the author, who met the love of his life but was sadly deprived of a lifetime with his love. It... Continue Reading →
“Death is like a minor speed bump in the journey of our souls.” – Ansh Das Always and Forever is an intimate and personal journey, one of self-discovery and spirituality, of grief and grace for the author, who met the love of his life but was sadly deprived of a lifetime with his love. It... Continue Reading →
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy…” – Franklin D. Roosevelt More than twenty-three-hundred people lost their lives, but there were figurative casualties as well, because even those who survived the attack were stripped of all the absolutes they’d known up to that now infamous day. It was the death of peace,... Continue Reading →
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy…” – Franklin D. Roosevelt More than twenty-three-hundred people lost their lives, but there were figurative casualties as well, because even those who survived the attack were stripped of all the absolutes they’d known up to that now infamous day. It was the death of peace,... Continue Reading →
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