Stories

The location? A science fiction convention outside of Baltimore, circa 1980. Our little group attended all the local conventions and there were a lot of really fun times. Some people would say unusual times, I'd go with different since it wasn't at all unusual to us. Come along and get into my head as I recount some of our adventures at this fateful Balticon.

for Tony

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**Warning: Anger ahead**

Tristan James Michaels Jr. commonly known as TJ to his friends and family. TJ has been in a coma over the last year after being in a car accident and when he awakens he is confused as reality doesn't match what he lived. He is on a journey to recovery and has to figure out what really happened. The prior two stories will give you a background on what TJ went through. The characters from that story will be woven into this story and may serve in a different capacity than they did in other story.

Here are poems about spirituality and darkness. These are all personal to me.

Letters, poems, prose, and short stories I've written. Includes a letter from a father to his son, experiences with dating, life after Trayvon Martin's death, and other subject matters.

Poems written for National Poetry Writing Month, April 2020. An assortment of mercifully short poems, I hope you will enjoy them at your leisure.

Poems about my journey and my personal trans experience.

This story is autobiographical in nature, but I have made some modifications to protect the identities of those included in it. All the names have been changed, and in some cases things such as gender, locations, and sometimes familial compositions have been altered.

All that being said, this is MY truth, and it's time I released it so that I'm free to create from a place other than brokenness and sadness.

This will be dark, but there are spots of light in the great black. No void is truly empty when one gazes into it. The light from our eyes illuminates more than we realize.

~Samuel

I am dealing with chronic depression and panic attacks. This is my journey to try to make sense of it all.