Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” ― Mark Twain In N.R. Walker’s Elements of Retrofit, age actually is the matter, or at least Thomas Elkin would like to make it matter when he’s reintroduced to his son’s friend, Cooper Jones—a now very grown up Cooper Jones.... Continue Reading →
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” ― Mark Twain In N.R. Walker’s Elements of Retrofit, age actually is the matter, or at least Thomas Elkin would like to make it matter when he’s reintroduced to his son’s friend, Cooper Jones—a now very grown up Cooper Jones.... Continue Reading →
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ― Albert Camus Sometimes perspective is a concept that can only be gained after a situation becomes so desperate that it leaves you standing on the fringes of your own life looking at yourself, at how you’ve lived and... Continue Reading →
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ― Albert Camus Sometimes perspective is a concept that can only be gained after a situation becomes so desperate that it leaves you standing on the fringes of your own life looking at yourself, at how you’ve lived and... Continue Reading →
“I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” ― Stephen Hawking Welcome to the Revolution. The fight for dominance in a game of political warfare now comes down not to who is right but... Continue Reading →
“I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” ― Stephen Hawking Welcome to the Revolution. The fight for dominance in a game of political warfare now comes down not to who is right but... Continue Reading →
“Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.” ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer Matthew Collins has just joined the ranks of the officially dumped. His lover, Milo, has left him for another man. Or maybe the better term is “another sucker”, because that’s the only kind of guy who’d take on a freeloading couch... Continue Reading →
“Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.” ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer Matthew Collins has just joined the ranks of the officially dumped. His lover, Milo, has left him for another man. Or maybe the better term is “another sucker”, because that’s the only kind of guy who’d take on a freeloading couch... Continue Reading →
Unconventional After the first GRL (GayRomLit) a group of us headed by Devon Rhodes talked about doing an anthology together. We were all at the first GRL and were coming back the next year. How often can you get an anthology signed by all the authors? It’s kind of rare for them to all be... Continue Reading →
“Dreams are private myths.” – Joseph Campbell The Cast – David Greene is the invisible man, an unremarkable man who lives for the books he reads and sells in the little antique bookshop he works for. He is largely ignored—unless someone wants something from him, which is usually his roommate Gem, who uses David as... Continue Reading →
“Dreams are private myths.” – Joseph Campbell The Cast – David Greene is the invisible man, an unremarkable man who lives for the books he reads and sells in the little antique bookshop he works for. He is largely ignored—unless someone wants something from him, which is usually his roommate Gem, who uses David as... Continue Reading →
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ― Ernest Hemingway While reading the first book in the Finding Home series we met Eli Thatcher. Eli is the man on the Earth plane that takes care of the money and properties for the vampire leader Keddrick. Four years... Continue Reading →
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ― Ernest Hemingway While reading the first book in the Finding Home series we met Eli Thatcher. Eli is the man on the Earth plane that takes care of the money and properties for the vampire leader Keddrick. Four years... Continue Reading →
Believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.” ― Anne Rice This story starts out with Wesley, who has been misled by his boyfriend and somehow ended up in a canoe, going down the WRONG river in the middle of the woods of Louisiana. Needless to say Wesley is not happy... Continue Reading →
Believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.” ― Anne Rice This story starts out with Wesley, who has been misled by his boyfriend and somehow ended up in a canoe, going down the WRONG river in the middle of the woods of Louisiana. Needless to say Wesley is not happy... Continue Reading →
One breath. Inhale. Hesitation is my enemy. Solitude my ally. Death the only real victory. Exhale. – S.A. McAuley Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Sometimes it pays to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Sometimes your friends and your enemies come wrapped in the same skin. Sometimes you come... Continue Reading →
One breath. Inhale. Hesitation is my enemy. Solitude my ally. Death the only real victory. Exhale. – S.A. McAuley Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Sometimes it pays to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Sometimes your friends and your enemies come wrapped in the same skin. Sometimes you come... Continue Reading →
“The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.” - Unknown For Dante Pane, the torture of watching Deacon live with and love Aren Montrell was too much to bear. It caused him nothing but anger and resentment, and it compelled him to do something so destructive that the man... Continue Reading →
“The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.” - Unknown For Dante Pane, the torture of watching Deacon live with and love Aren Montrell was too much to bear. It caused him nothing but anger and resentment, and it compelled him to do something so destructive that the man... Continue Reading →
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