"But you don't have classes today, do you?" I was sitting in the dean's office, steeped in the Gothic architecture and trappings, including the imposing stain-glass window behind where he sat, of the older buildings on the Georgetown University campus. Georgetown was the premier Jesuit educational institution in the United States, sitting on the heights bes...
1 I never expected to end up in this position. Cold, alone, desperate, I huddle beneath the overpass and try not to think of the things my parents had said no more than three hours beforehand. You're gay? they'd asked, then repeated it by saying, You're GAY? I'd wanted it all out in the open, so I could finally stop hiding from not only myself, but the...
"You seem a million miles away. What has your attention—that newspaper or that Japanese maple out there? The tree is new, isn't it? Wasn't something else there before?" The questions came from Walker Sharp, the novelist, and Maxwell Ackerman's neighbor in the row of small, but very expensive, townhouses on Drayton Street, facing Savannah's thirty-acre Forsyt...
A week ago, I had the idea of biking from Paducah, Kentucky, to Joplin, Missouri. I had a bike, a cell phone, a pocketful of cash and a plan, but things can change fast on the road. Three days later, I was reduced to my backpack, a broken cell phone, no cash and no bike all thanks to getting rolled by some rednecks in a pickup truck. I stashed my broken bik...
The Fireman and The Librarian Chapter 8 Decay - Fire, Embers and the Aftermath "Why can't you just say I'm right, Chris?" Jasper snapped over the phone. "Can we talk about this when I get off shift tomorrow?" Chris responded. "You want to nitpick the subject to death." "Yeah, but Chris." "No buts." Chris laughed, knowing it would just piss Jasper off....
3 A Side of Beef Jack's vanishing act the next day wasn't unexpected, just hated. Once again, I roamed my apartment, coming up empty-handed. The fifty I'd tucked beneath the melted red candle on the kitchen table was untouched. I didn't want to buy Jack but I didn't want him cold or hungry or roaming around homeless. I'd fallen hard for the man in the spac...
Chapter 01: Matt Seeks Help Coming Out On the surface Matt and Brad seemed an unlikely pair of gay lovers. Born into different worlds, one very wealthy, and the other middle class. They met on the job and found common ground in their love for each other. This is their story. Matt was the rich kid, the son of a wealthy industrialist and his show girl moth...
Chapter 1: Chris Pond Chris entered New York City for the first time. The silver train rattled like a broken wheeled shopping cart into Penn Station. This is like Disney World but real! The unforeseen dungeon pressure squeezed his skull and neck as he powered through the submarine texture: rows of iron bolts up high. Now craving the Big Apple's sun, he mov...
"Ugh. Be quiet," Benji moaned as he slapped his hand on the buzzing alarm clock. He rolled over and snuggled up to the warmth of Ben's side. He scratched his fingers through the thick auburn colored fur in the middle of Ben's chest. "I wish I had the day off with you." Ben sniffed and cleared his voice, still gruff from sleep. "Well, you're important now, M...
Labor Day weekend passed and things started to return to normal. Greg & Nina returned from their vacation, Greg had really gotten sunburned while on vacation, so Nina tended to him the first few days they were back. My client schedule picked up again, I had three assignments that week. The fall semester was going to begin the following week, and I was anxiou...