1 Many of us balk at the idea of storytelling being something of a clinically constructed device, but everybody has their own methods; ways of writing that work best for them. Long before I studied media I was a ball of chaotic creative energy with little conscious method beyond the dialogue and the description. I can look back and both cringe and revel...
Author's Note: This series is a work of pure fiction. Konalin Kost is a fictional writer, and Charlie Konrad is the character that made him successful. It is presented as a writer sending an underground letter to his fans, followed by a compilation of replies. This is the letter to the fans. _____________________________________________ My Dearest Readers...
The day after Peter the bar owner came up with a wife swap suggestion, Jim explained to Peter that his wife Lily wasn't the type of woman who would go for that. Peter was disappointed but shrugged it off. Jim, 28 and a novelist, himself had fantasies, none of which he could perform with Lily who was traditional when it came to sexual preferences. And hence...
In central Texas there is a region know as 'The Texas Hill Country' a vernacular term applied to a region of tall rugged hills consisting of thin layers of soil atop limestone and granite. The graceful rolling hills are dotted with Texas Live Oak, Cedar, and Cypress not to mention yucca and prickly pear cactuses. Near the southern tip of the region where t...
Jade McQueen sat alone in the her blue tour bus. There was peach colored teddy bear underneath the seat. She had picked up at FAO Schwarz a few weeks ago. It was a present for her Casper, her lover. Actually, it was a peace offering. Casper was upset by the rumor that was going around about Jade. Apparently, Jade was being unfaithful on the road. Also, there...
It was always hard to focus at this time a day; Five days a week, at ten am, Monday through Friday, for the past three weeks. He didn't know why it happened, and sure as fuck couldn't even begin to explain how. This sort of thing isn't supposed to be possible after all. This was real life. This wasn't some high fantasy setting in which this sort of thing was...
Magdalena Shaw was feeling a bit whistful. She had been doing nothing all morning and had planned to do nothing until John came home, but she was starting to get bored with it. Suddenly the doorbell rang. She hoped the maid would answer it. She was awfully busy doing nothing after all. After the fourteenth ring, she realized that the maid was busy with the a...
This Part One of a four-part story. It seemed nearly beyond his comprehension. Five minutes earlier, he would never have guessed that. Truth be told, he wouldn't have guessed anything, because he hadn't thought about her for a very long time. But then his mind worked backwards, trying to remember. Knowing what she actually did, he tried to imagine where he...
(Credit to the artist Shiboobmura for the cover art.) "Uh...uh...uh...unh...uh...uh... You done yet?" "Shut the snurf up!" You grunt in annoyance as you pound away. He looks over his shoulder at you, the tip of his forward curving white hat bouncing up and down as you slam into him again and again. A thick application of rose pigment blus...
There is, it is said, nothing more boring than a lecture on why comedy is either funny or unfunny. So here's my version of that joke. This is my attempt at guessing at my mind's viewpoint of gay fiction and fact in a retrospective. What I thought then. What I think, on re-reading these books and re-watching movies I once took to my heart and said, yes, this...