I don't know how to approach this topic. It's ugly so be warned that it's not going anywhere nice. If you're going to freak out, change to the Disney channel.
Adult content. Violence. Very, very fucked up situations.
No parent in their right mind would want you to know that this shit happens.
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I'm going to tell you a story about an 18 year old freshman.
He was really excited to go to college. He was going where hi
"Outing" people is, under most circumstances, traumatic and potentially destructive.
It can even be dangerous to people.
It should only be done only under certain exceptional circumstances. Examples follow and then guidelines.
Reverend Ted Haggard, millionaire leader of a mega-church, was a highly influential, outspoken critic of gay people and gay rights.
He counseled parents to send their gay kids to pray-the-gay-away camp.
He was caught with a hustler and crystal meth.
Mor
This might be a bad idea. Probably- I've had them before.
I think that it reminds me of the controversy over the word queer.
To those of us in the South there's no word quite so hateful. Wrapping my mind around the concept of taking that word back took a lot of getting used to.
Those of us that are either from the South or live here know a lot about hate. Just today in the local paper there was a whole editorial page dripping with it.
They call us unstable- after tormenting us fr
I am always studying addiction. It is a science that far too may people think they have figured out. The reality is a lot more complicated.
This is Whiskers the rat. I bring Whiskers into this discussion because almost everybody is familiar with the famous experiment where they put a rat in a cage with easy access to cocaine and the rat goes ape shit and does cocaine until he dies.
The obvious things most people think about this experiment is that holy shit, cocaine is awesomely add
I just don't have it in me.
I have experienced enough real pain to know that I don't like it and, am mortified(good Southern word) at the thought of causing pain to others- especially someone I like enough to want to roll around with.
The idea of being out of control gives me cold sweats so trying to tie me up would be like trying to give a cat a bath. It could probably be done but no one would enjoy the experience.
Leather? No. Just.. no.
I'm just not kinky that way.
My big
1. Ignoring the Obvious- It is said that love is blind. It makes us overlook tiny little flaws like say... alcoholism.
2. Thinking he will change for me- no, he won't. In some cases, you can expect it to get much worse and take you down with them.
3. I have to take it because I can't do any better- without any self esteem or confidence, you probably won't. You won't get either staying in an abusive situation.
4. I need a relationship- are you ready for one or is it a s
The Athlete
OK. You can stand the competitiveness to get next to those pecs and abs. It's not that he looks like a Greek god chiseled out of marble that turns you on about him. It's that dreamy look in his eye.
It takes you a while to figure out that when he gets that dreamy look, he's thinking of somebody else.
Mr. Perfect
No. He's not a wrestler except in the sack. Mr. Perfect is everything you always wanted... except for the cheating and the clap.
The Hipst
I see you there truth seeker. You seek meaning. You fondle these blogs and hope something special falls out.
Well here it is. the Oatmeal Explains: God, the Universe and Everything!
You are now 11:30 closer to enlightenment.
You are welcome.
The following is a list of some of my favorite GLBT oriented story sites. I know there are more but these are special in one way or another. If you find a site missing, please add it in a comment.
Awesomedude Awesomedude
My "home" site and the home of many really good authors I like to hang out with in case some of the magic is transferable.
Deweywriter Deweywriter
This is the home of Dewey's Brian & Pete Saga and the Eggman's A New Life. Go there. Pack a lunch and plan on
The Littlest Hero 14%
Nightfall 7% Tomorrow I go to sign up for my gradual school classes. Annoying these distractions from writing are. [yes- there are clues in the songs.]
You know what bugs me in a story?
Mr. fucking Perfect. If I were ever to meet this person, I'd probably kick his ass on general principles.
Granted: with some authors, there is some level of wish fulfillment going on but please!
I'm not going to dump on any author- lot's of us do it.
See if you've met this asshole:
Mr. Perfect as a kid is brilliant and gets all A's. He's the perfect size, with perfect hair, with perfect bod and a perfect schlong. Of course- he get's the perfe
hello my friends. I have an unusual request. No it doesn't involve a chicken suit or gravy this time.
In an upcoming story, my character is a young metalhead in middle school.
Jimmy Mcculloch is small for his age and a bit immature. He's the younest in his class because his August birthday fell at just the right date for him to start scool.
He wears NIN or Tool or anthrax or megadeth t-shirt all the time.
He drinks and smokes weed every day. He doesn't have a lot of friends and i
Last month we had a very unusual protest of the ruling that struck down the law banning gay marriage in Mississippi.
A black minister put a wedding dress on a horse. You don't see that everyday
As you can guess, I wasn't too fond of that. It prompted a discussion on social media a little like a wild fire with brilliant social commentary like "adam and eve, not adam and steve" and "next they'll want to marry their dog".
This doesn't bother me. I've seen it before but then came th
A New Life by the Eggman
Preston O'brien and his Mother have relocated from Texas to Malibu, CA. For a gay kid from Texas, it is a whole New Life. This story has been around for some time. It is a great slice of life in Southern California in the nineties. It gives hope to those of us that live in the sticks that somewhere there might be a new life for them too.
Bonus:
the Quarry by Driver
This is Driver at his best. It introduces a huge cast of characters and delves deeply into
Tapping by Kit
This little story is lot's of fun and it is as English as a pile of fish & chips.
Mark is 15, just out of school and his dad has to move. They buy an old mansion in Scotland with a ghost and a 100 year old secret. What will he find when he looks for answers?
READ IT! IT ROCKS!
Brian & Pete by Dewey
Once upon a time there were two boys on the West coast. Their names were Brian and Pete and they fell in love. Then things got complicated by reality.
This is the story that broke through my shell and got me started writing. It did me a lot of good because through the struggles of these brave and noble kids, I could see myself differently.
It is a beautiful thing but I warn you: it hurts. Have some time on your hands and a box of Kleenex handy.
This is o
Falling Off A Log by Driver
If you have never read this story, it's so good it hurts a little.
Joey and Scott are two average kids. They aren't athletes, they are so uncoordinated they are a little dangerous and they aren't brains. What makes them special is that Joey can play the electric guitar, Scott can sing and they love each other like brothers. They are both very talented and together they are something very special.
The boys do a lot of jamming and growing up.
Typical of
My mom was a little girl during the Great Depression. In addition to all that, she grew up in a tiny town in the Mississippi Delta.
If the rest of the country was broke, the Delta was like Oh my God, how could they get any poorer poor.
They lived on what they could grow on their farm and had precious little extra.
One of my mom's best pal's was a big black cat named Kitty Kay-O. Back in those days cats weren't that common in those parts. Kay-o was a prized mouser and her kittens were
There are three stories in a trilogy.
The 1st is: the Place in Between
The 2nd is: Getting to the Happily Ever After
The 3rd will be Nightfall
I've started it but I'm not sure when it's going to post. Most probably in the Spring Anthology.
I have several things going on at once. Well- screw it. I produce better under pressure.
Nightfall is about the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Back when AIDS was mysterious and we didn't know much about it. It's about the fear, the panic, the
Scotty gets a Mustang
I'm fifteen. It's summer and in July in Mississippi, it's hot as hell.
Things haven't been awesome at home for some time. Not since my asshole scoutmaster told my parents that homosexuals weren't welcome in scouting.
He threw that little bomb into our home and walked his self righteous ass away. I hated him. I really wanted to kill him because nothing was ever the same after.
My dad never hit me before. I was always afraid. They told me that you can't b
A Tekkies Christmas
Every Christmas it seems the weather is dreary,
And I gets calls from my friends, their minds bleary,
They buy laptops and games and PCs for their young,
But getting it all going can be a bit high strung.
So I go about town in the dead of night,
With my shiny tools and flashlight so bright,
To help those poor souls to get things working
Since with Santa's elves, there can be no shirking.
Off to see Bill and Cheryl to get a lap top loaded,
Off to see Kim and
Freddie Mercury, Rock Hudson, Gia Carangi, Isaac Asimov, Michel Foucault, Anthony Perkins, Leigh Bowery, Robert Reed, Arthur Ashe, Easy-E, Michael Lupo, Tony Richardson, Peter McWilliams, Denholt Eliott, Cazuza, Dac Rambo, Peter Allen, Tom Waddell, Jerry Smith, Pedro Zamora, Michael Jeter, Glenn Burke, John Curry, Roy Cohn, Howard Asher, Essex Hemphill, Slyvester, Ian Charleston, Kieth Herring, Andy Miligan, Vito Russo, Jon Hinson, Arthur Russell, Derick Johnson, Alvin Ailey, Steve Rubell, Brian
My writing has never been what I would call really inspired. It has been fun, cathartic on occasion and sometimes I'll come up with something I'm really proud of.
In the past I've written stories with conspicuous drinking and drug use. As I was in active addiction for a lot of my life, that's my experience, I couldn't write normal kids playing baseball and living in non-dysfunctional families. I wouldn't know where to start.
The feedback that I've gotten from Redemption is one that has
Responsibility is a word that has really been raped over time.
It means blame- Who is responsible for toilet papering Principal Skinner's house?
It means shame- The criminal admitted his responsibility and took a plea bargain.
It can sometimes mean burden- I am responsible for taking out the trash on Mondays and Fridays.
It often means guilt- My insurance dropped me because I was responsible for the accident.
All of those definitions have made it a word that many people are f
It's 4:30am again and I haven't slept. I've got to be up in 3 hours and I'm screwed.
There's danger in writing about old times. Sometimes you wake up old demons that you wished you had left alone.
I'm going to warn you that if you go past the spoiler you're going to read something shitty. It's one of my nightmares that comes back from time to time to torment me. I try to keep it in a little box and never take it out but sometimes it escapes and it haunts me to this very day.
