Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth, but it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.” – Jim Morrison Sometimes the most destructive lies are the lies we try to convince ourselves are true. It’s... Continue Reading →
“When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.” – Rabindranath Tagore Jordan Jensen is responsible for the death of a three-year-old child. It took some time to reconcile himself to the role he played in that tragic and... Continue Reading →
“When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.” – Rabindranath Tagore Jordan Jensen is responsible for the death of a three-year-old child. It took some time to reconcile himself to the role he played in that tragic and... Continue Reading →
“Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend, the avenging fiend, that follows us behind with whips and stings.” – Nicholas Rowe A guilty conscience provides the currency for emotional blackmail, a fair price to pay according to Cooper Wyatt, who, if guilt were gold, would be the wealthiest man on the planet. Cooper... Continue Reading →
“Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend, the avenging fiend, that follows us behind with whips and stings.” – Nicholas Rowe A guilty conscience provides the currency for emotional blackmail, a fair price to pay according to Cooper Wyatt, who, if guilt were gold, would be the wealthiest man on the planet. Cooper... Continue Reading →
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu Mourning Heaven is a story of bigotry in a small California town, where three boys will come of age but only two will survive the burning animosity aimed at them for their sins. It is a story... Continue Reading →
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu Mourning Heaven is a story of bigotry in a small California town, where three boys will come of age but only two will survive the burning animosity aimed at them for their sins. It is a story... Continue Reading →
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.” - Stendhal Cain Elliott has exhausted his hope to its very dregs, scraping through his reserves to come out at rock bottom with the certainty that he’s going to lose not only his home but the homes of his colorful and... Continue Reading →
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.” - Stendhal Cain Elliott has exhausted his hope to its very dregs, scraping through his reserves to come out at rock bottom with the certainty that he’s going to lose not only his home but the homes of his colorful and... Continue Reading →
"‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, ‘doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!’" – Dr. Seuss I know it’s a little early to be pushing holiday books. Or maybe, in this case, I’m a little late, seeing as how this book came out in December of 2010. Well, better late than... Continue Reading →
"‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, ‘doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!’" – Dr. Seuss I know it’s a little early to be pushing holiday books. Or maybe, in this case, I’m a little late, seeing as how this book came out in December of 2010. Well, better late than... Continue Reading →
“It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.” – Unknown When the Right One Comes Along is a short story that begins in the mid-80s, when AIDS was just starting to make the transition from obscure illness to public health crisis, when a young boy named Ryan... Continue Reading →
“It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.” – Unknown When the Right One Comes Along is a short story that begins in the mid-80s, when AIDS was just starting to make the transition from obscure illness to public health crisis, when a young boy named Ryan... Continue Reading →
“Love is not finding someone you can live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.” – Unknown Carson Cress is the most invisible man on the Everson University campus. That’s not to say everyone doesn’t see the gorgeous star quarterback destined for the NFL, though. It’s to say that no one sees Carson as... Continue Reading →
“Love is not finding someone you can live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.” – Unknown Carson Cress is the most invisible man on the Everson University campus. That’s not to say everyone doesn’t see the gorgeous star quarterback destined for the NFL, though. It’s to say that no one sees Carson as... Continue Reading →
“At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way.” – Hermann Hesse Michael Finnegan has been called a lot of things in his life: unorthodox, lax, a slutty nonconformist, which, when you’re standing in a man’s office with your fly unzipped and your naughty bits exposed after you’ve... Continue Reading →
“At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way.” – Hermann Hesse Michael Finnegan has been called a lot of things in his life: unorthodox, lax, a slutty nonconformist, which, when you’re standing in a man’s office with your fly unzipped and your naughty bits exposed after you’ve... Continue Reading →
“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit.” – Jeanette Winterson Cole Grayson’s life is a lie: the celebrity, the wife, the unborn child. All of these things are the pretense of perfection, the façade that reflects to the world a distorted reality and misrepresents the... Continue Reading →
“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit.” – Jeanette Winterson Cole Grayson’s life is a lie: the celebrity, the wife, the unborn child. All of these things are the pretense of perfection, the façade that reflects to the world a distorted reality and misrepresents the... Continue Reading →
“Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.” – Oscar Wilde Jennifer Cierra’s Melting Wax and Burning Feathers is a short, beautifully written story that I found myself wishing had gone on for much longer than it did, but... Continue Reading →
“Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.” – Oscar Wilde Jennifer Cierra’s Melting Wax and Burning Feathers is a short, beautifully written story that I found myself wishing had gone on for much longer than it did, but... Continue Reading →
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice.” - Tom Robbins The Outlaw’s Lover is the third installment in James Cox’s erotic “Manlove at the End of the World” series, a series that takes place in a... Continue Reading →
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice.” - Tom Robbins The Outlaw’s Lover is the third installment in James Cox’s erotic “Manlove at the End of the World” series, a series that takes place in a... Continue Reading →
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