Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“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 →
“It takes two to get one in trouble.” – Mae West I’m going to come right out and say it: the beginning of this book made me laugh so hard that my little people looked at me as if their sinister plot to loosen the barely-there-fingertip-grasp I have on my wee shred of sanity had... Continue Reading →
“It takes two to get one in trouble.” – Mae West I’m going to come right out and say it: the beginning of this book made me laugh so hard that my little people looked at me as if their sinister plot to loosen the barely-there-fingertip-grasp I have on my wee shred of sanity had... Continue Reading →
“Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle I knew as soon as I read Elyan Smith’s short story Zones in the UK MAT anthology Lashings of Sauce that he was an author whose work I wanted to know much better. Zones is the touching story of a transgender woman who is trying desperately to find... Continue Reading →
“Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle I knew as soon as I read Elyan Smith’s short story Zones in the UK MAT anthology Lashings of Sauce that he was an author whose work I wanted to know much better. Zones is the touching story of a transgender woman who is trying desperately to find... Continue Reading →
“A lie never lives to be old.” – Sophocles Caesar Romano seems to have a knack for attracting people who not only outright lie but also like to keep a variety of secrets, as well. He has an ex-boyfriend who’s keeping a big one, a boss who’s keeping a somewhat bizarre one, a private investigator... Continue Reading →
“A lie never lives to be old.” – Sophocles Caesar Romano seems to have a knack for attracting people who not only outright lie but also like to keep a variety of secrets, as well. He has an ex-boyfriend who’s keeping a big one, a boss who’s keeping a somewhat bizarre one, a private investigator... Continue Reading →
“Sometimes up out of this land a legend begins to move.” – William Stafford Sean O’Hara is a Cuban/Irish American with a steady job and dreams to pursue, even if the rest of his life isn’t quite so steady. His only family tie is to a cousin, but otherwise, Sean has no other connections to... Continue Reading →
“Sometimes up out of this land a legend begins to move.” – William Stafford Sean O’Hara is a Cuban/Irish American with a steady job and dreams to pursue, even if the rest of his life isn’t quite so steady. His only family tie is to a cousin, but otherwise, Sean has no other connections to... Continue Reading →
“One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love.” – Unknown Trey Holgersen and Josh Campbell were inseparable for a while, but slowly drifted apart when Josh’s family moved to the East Coast after a horrific event that left its share of scars all over Josh, his family, and Trey as well. It was a... Continue Reading →
“One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love.” – Unknown Trey Holgersen and Josh Campbell were inseparable for a while, but slowly drifted apart when Josh’s family moved to the East Coast after a horrific event that left its share of scars all over Josh, his family, and Trey as well. It was a... Continue Reading →
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not an activist, I’m a pacifist, and I believe firmly in the concept of “live and let live”. I’ll be me, you be you, and hopefully—not as Republicans or Democrats, not as Protestants, Catholics, Buddhists, Muslims, Wiccans, Agnostics, or Atheists, not as men or women—but as human beings,... Continue Reading →
“I love him to hell and back and heaven and back…” – Sylvia Plath Oscar’s father sold his first born’s soul to Hell in exchange for unlimited worldly success, which shows a spectacularly selfish and covetous bent on his father’s part; either that or a singularly limited sense of foresight and consequences. Probably all of... Continue Reading →
“I love him to hell and back and heaven and back…” – Sylvia Plath Oscar’s father sold his first born’s soul to Hell in exchange for unlimited worldly success, which shows a spectacularly selfish and covetous bent on his father’s part; either that or a singularly limited sense of foresight and consequences. Probably all of... Continue Reading →
“The Fates lead him who will. Him who won't they drag.” – Seneca The Fates, the Moirai, the Three Witches, the Weird Sisters—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Sometimes they are portrayed as the girl, the woman, and the crone, three separate and distinct entities of female evolution; though at times they’re also portrayed as a single... Continue Reading →
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