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Featured Story: Denn's Mobile Circus


Renee Stevens

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Being the start of a new week, Monday's are also a good time to take a look at some of the different stories that can be found on Gay Authors. With so many great works, it can be easy to overlook one and Monday's provide an opportunity for us to help make one of them stand out and maybe catch your interest. Today, we're bringing you a review by AC Benus of Twisted_Dreemz's story "Denn's Mobile Circus." Enjoy!

 



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Reviewer: AC Benus
Status: In Process
Word Count: 56,187

 


One of the features I like the most about GA is the great variety of stories posted here. Recently I was curious about the 'were-creatures' category, and clicked on it. I just wanted to poke around and see how different authors handled a topic I myself had recently posted on with my new novel.

 

That's how I first came into contact with Denn's Mobile Circus, by Twisted_Dreemz. The quality of the writing grabbed me instantly, as the opening lines are:

 


Like any other person I was born into this world bound by statistics and stereotypes:

 

 

 

Most likely to be undereducated;

Most likely to be sexually active at a young age;

Most vulnerable to AIDS;

Most likely to drop out of high school and never see a GED, let alone college;

Most likely to be dead or in prison before the age of twenty-one.

 

 

 

You can probably tell what color I am already.

 


Wow. And then the wit and witticism of the author flows in a ceaselessly smooth style to layout the very broad concept for his book.

 

A young man, who is in a rather uncertain time of his life, has an episode at his job. When he snaps to, he can hardly believe what his coworkers tell him he did to one of the customers.

 

From that moment on, we are in for a breathtaking ride. Micahel – or Micah, as he is called – begins to learn an incredible secret, but also to slowly build a concept of family and community. The analogy here of coming out and finding a new family is played with brilliant subtlety. Bumps and mega-surprises await the reader as we turn from chapter to chapter, but what never disappoints, or leaves our side as a constant guide, is Micah's prosaic sense of humor. Far from an 'angry' book, Denn's is balanced with polished skill, and comes compete with funny moments like this one:

 


When that door opened and the smell of the food hit my nose, appetite came out from where it was hiding and hit me so hard my stomach let out a huge growl.

 

 

 

“Damn, boy. Sounds like you got a beast to feed,” Kyla remarked over her shoulder.

 

 

 

Before I could respond, her stomach let out a growl of its own.

 

 

 

“Oooh, better let me shut up then.” She chuckled.

 


Twisted also has a gift for action writing, and Micah encounters a well-spaced-out battery of physical challenges, but the poise the author brings to bear on his protagonist allows for humor, action, and emotion to stay in equilibrium. In other words, we come to care about Micahel effortlessly.

 

Now, back to the Introduction, for that is where we will find the stunning 'statistics and stereotypes' passage: in roughly 10,500 words, our author takes us on a journey the likes of which you will rarely find better exampled on GA, or anywhere else for that matter. We follow young Micah from the age of about five, or from the time he was old enough to first inquire about his father, to only moments before his life changed at work. It left this reader feeling like a moviegoer emerging out of a film premier to a battery of lights and reporters. "What did you think?!" I, feeling overwhelmed, resort to the classic response, "I laughed; I cried; I loved it!"

 

I think you will love this work too. No matter if you are first drawn to it for the listed categories, or come to it just seeking fine writing, Denn's Mobile Circus will not disappoint.

 


Category: Fi ction Genres: Adve nture, Drama, Fantasy, Horro r, Thriller/Suspense


Tags: mature adult, magic, psionics, were-creatures, adult, friendship Rating: Mature

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Fantastic review, AC!!!!! :)

 

I'm so not into were-creatures and the like, as you know, AC, but your review was so good that I just might turn to the dark side. lol J/K

 

But seriously, your review was excellent, and I might just check out the story (which I would have never looked at before), because of your review. :)

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