https://www.gayauthors.org/story/w-l/0sand1scbdt/13

Before I begin my weekly blurb, I just want to congratulate all the contestants of the Secret Santa story contest.

Now to start, escalation and counter-escalation is something I love exploring. If you live in a world where threats exists from extreme ideologies, why won't reactionary elements from your own side take action? Being LGBT doesn't mean that we're all saints.

Jesse Heron is determined, hot-tempered, and has nothing to lose in taking extreme actions. He also knows that he won't hurt his own people if he timed it just right, but there was still a risk of collateral damage. Jesse can be viewed in one of two lights: he's a moderate terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on your allegiances. The reality of my story is that there are different shades of good and evil, never absolute and never the same depending on goals, needs, and repercussions.

By doing what he did, he created an opening for further investigation and a stronger movement to eliminate the original C.I.S.S extremists. In a way, he's forcing the oppositions hand by doing something so unthinkably risky and dangerous.

However, as Hunter hypothesized, there is more to this connection of CISS and the Federal agencies investigating the greater issue. Think about that connection into Book 2 and the logical needs that would come about after the Assassination of the Pope in "One Man's Worth".

The story is starting to heat up and the players are getting their battle lines ready, Hunter and his friends will have to address multiple issues very soon, many beyond their control or their comprehension.