Where Fiction and Reality Meet
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 →
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. – Pericles On Earth, sometime in a future that we all should hope never materializes, there is a caste system in which the aged are venerated and the young are relegated to a role of subservience that ignores their humanity... Continue Reading →
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. – Pericles On Earth, sometime in a future that we all should hope never materializes, there is a caste system in which the aged are venerated and the young are relegated to a role of subservience that ignores their humanity... 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 →
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 →
A computer is like an Old Testament god, with lots of rules and no mercy. – Joseph Campbell Jerry is an old dog, and Quin is the guy who’s going to try to teach him some new tricks in J.M. Snyder’s Quintessential, a story in which the porn’s the thing that will capture the conscience... Continue Reading →
The world needs more love at first sight – Maggie Stiefvater Jack Fisher is singlehandedly upping the love-at-first-site quota in Farewell Jake Fisher, the story of a man whose life changes for the better after a series of coincidental encounters at his local Meijer Superstore finds him longing for a man with a physical affliction... Continue Reading →
There is no certainty; there is only adventure. – Roberto Assagioli There was only one thing I wanted to know when I finished reading about Jake’s adventure with Michael Hammond in this teasing little morsel of a story: when is the next adventure coming? Jake is a bit of an adorable geek who works at... Continue Reading →
Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it—you feel it, you know it, you believe it. – Kevin Alan Milne Just open up your heart and let Colin and Martin in. That’s what I did and ended up finding an incredibly touching and sweet story of a love that grows between a blind man, Martin,... Continue Reading →
Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it—you feel it, you know it, you believe it. – Kevin Alan Milne Just open up your heart and let Colin and Martin in. That’s what I did and ended up finding an incredibly touching and sweet story of a love that grows between a blind man, Martin,... Continue Reading →
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