Stories

STories to be devoured. A soldier's outlook on life changes in one blistering moment...A friend rejects homosexuality...An Afghan woman's dash for freedom...A son steals ten bucks...

James Lacan: Lawyer extraordinaire. At least, that's his dream.

Another dreams sweeps him off his feet in the lift.

Here is where I collect my occasional attempts at poetry.

In 2006 my family went to California for a vacation. We had a lot of fun, and I got to see a lot of family, many of whom I hadn't seen since 1999. During the course of this visit, I made a lot of observations and relived a lot of memories, good and bad.

This is a story of survival, It concentrates on a small group of male prostitutes, and the bond between them, their relationships with one another and how they cope with life of working on the streets. Though the initial three chapters leads up to how circumstances force Adam into selling his body to survive.

A hard look at deep, twisted love

A poem from an old contest. The prompt was, "If life was just a moment."

A brief take on my life up until now written in a very stylized idiom inspired by Gertrude Stein.

Adam Cummings returns home after spending four years away at college, two more years at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and then taking even more time to travel in Europe. At first, he doesn’t run into any of the other students he went to high school with, but when he does, he has some unsettling experiences. (Halloween story)

Bob came out when he was about to enter Boston University. He was not disowned, but his father forbade him from ever coming home again.