Where Fiction and Reality Meet
TNA: Hi, Paul, thanks so much for being here with us today. Why don’t we start out by having you tell us a little bit about yourself? Hobbies, interests, odds and ends things that make you, you. PAF: Hi, Lisa, I’m so glad you asked me to be here. Wow. That’s an interesting question. Hmm.... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Paul, thanks so much for being here with us today. Why don’t we start out by having you tell us a little bit about yourself? Hobbies, interests, odds and ends things that make you, you. PAF: Hi, Lisa, I’m so glad you asked me to be here. Wow. That’s an interesting question. Hmm.... Continue Reading →
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul.” ― Cassandra Giovanni I'll Take the Rain is a little snippet, only 23 pages; a slice of life between the narrator and his boyfriend. The author doesn't give us any names. My only conclusion as to why is that this could be... Continue Reading →
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul.” ― Cassandra Giovanni I'll Take the Rain is a little snippet, only 23 pages; a slice of life between the narrator and his boyfriend. The author doesn't give us any names. My only conclusion as to why is that this could be... Continue Reading →
“Be careful what you wish for because sometimes your wish can be your worst nightmare...” — Origin Unknown This was the first book I've read by Michael P. Thomas. In fact, I hadn’t heard of him before I saw this book on the JMS Books submissions list. Then I went to his website and saw... Continue Reading →
“Be careful what you wish for because sometimes your wish can be your worst nightmare...” — Origin Unknown This was the first book I've read by Michael P. Thomas. In fact, I hadn’t heard of him before I saw this book on the JMS Books submissions list. Then I went to his website and saw... Continue Reading →
“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.” – Leonard Cohen In this short story we meet Nolan. He's a landlord, taking in tenants to pay the bills after losing his lover three years ago in a drowning accident. He takes in all kinds of tenants over the course of these three... Continue Reading →
“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.” – Leonard Cohen In this short story we meet Nolan. He's a landlord, taking in tenants to pay the bills after losing his lover three years ago in a drowning accident. He takes in all kinds of tenants over the course of these three... Continue Reading →
Murder is easy if no one suspects you. – Agatha Christie World War II is still going strong in Europe, and Leslie Atwater is still missing his lover Edward, though now for a very different reason than in Bomber’s Moon, the book that introduced Leslie, Edward, his cousin Caroline, as well as a cast of... Continue Reading →
Murder is easy if no one suspects you. – Agatha Christie World War II is still going strong in Europe, and Leslie Atwater is still missing his lover Edward, though now for a very different reason than in Bomber’s Moon, the book that introduced Leslie, Edward, his cousin Caroline, as well as a cast of... Continue Reading →
Touch. By touch we are betrayed and betray others. – Wallace Stegner Monogamy has been rather fluidly practiced over the centuries, the shape of it changing with the times and the attitudes of each generation. And let’s face facts; there was a double-standard for a very long time, a time when it was not only... Continue Reading →
Touch. By touch we are betrayed and betray others. – Wallace Stegner Monogamy has been rather fluidly practiced over the centuries, the shape of it changing with the times and the attitudes of each generation. And let’s face facts; there was a double-standard for a very long time, a time when it was not only... Continue Reading →
Is there any scream more piercing than that of the soul which suffers in silence? – Author Unknown Cole Grayson had thought his best friend and lover, Jake Walker, was dead, until he walked into a bar one night and the bouncer turned out to be the man—the only man—who, even from the grave, had... Continue Reading →
Is there any scream more piercing than that of the soul which suffers in silence? – Author Unknown Cole Grayson had thought his best friend and lover, Jake Walker, was dead, until he walked into a bar one night and the bouncer turned out to be the man—the only man—who, even from the grave, had... Continue Reading →
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. – John Donne Jim and Brad are taking advantage of a beautiful day at the new “clothing optional” beach, not that they’re going to ogle other naked sunbathers, mind you. They aren’t; they’re simply going... Continue Reading →
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. – John Donne Jim and Brad are taking advantage of a beautiful day at the new “clothing optional” beach, not that they’re going to ogle other naked sunbathers, mind you. They aren’t; they’re simply going... Continue Reading →
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. – Bill Cosby Between the days of April 29 and May 4, 1992, Los Angeles, California burned as the worst display of human aggression and... Continue Reading →
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. – Bill Cosby Between the days of April 29 and May 4, 1992, Los Angeles, California burned as the worst display of human aggression and... Continue Reading →
Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. – Karl Germain Ah, what a tangled knot we twist when magic practiced does exist, when illusion is not a simple guise, and to mock its existence proves most unwise… Sorry. I’m pretty sure I’d make the absolute worst poet... Continue Reading →
Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. – Karl Germain Ah, what a tangled knot we twist when magic practiced does exist, when illusion is not a simple guise, and to mock its existence proves most unwise… Sorry. I’m pretty sure I’d make the absolute worst poet... Continue Reading →
Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. – Ambrose Bierce William Pastor learns a very valuable lesson about celebrity worship: sometimes the actor is only as interesting as the words that others have put into his mouth, and only as sure of himself as the directions he’s been given by a script. Sometimes... Continue Reading →
Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. – Ambrose Bierce William Pastor learns a very valuable lesson about celebrity worship: sometimes the actor is only as interesting as the words that others have put into his mouth, and only as sure of himself as the directions he’s been given by a script. Sometimes... Continue Reading →
Happiness is a warm puppy. – Charles M. Schulz Though for Kurt, that puppy is about as welcome as a raging case of jock itch when Matt, an overly enthusiastic guy at the gym—who can’t seem to take the hint that Kurt is intensely(!) uninterested in the attention—comes along and makes Kurt begin to think... Continue Reading →
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.” – Winston Churchill World War II London was a place of suffering and sacrifice, a place where the strength and character... Continue Reading →
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