Stories

Born with hereditary spastic paraparesis, Simon had spent most of his life in a wheelchair, unable to walk and barely able to use his hands. To his parents, home schooling had seemed to be the only way for Simon to get an education; yet Simon was smart and yearned to be another Stephen Hawking - not to live with his parents until they became to infirm to care for him. He decided to take a chance on applying to the Bronx High School of Science, one of the best public secondary schools in the world. Going to a public high school would be scary, but there'd be new opportunities to live life, and to love.

Men are like flowers. They are bound to grow. However, not all seeds spring at the same time. Some lie dormant in the ground for another long and cold winter. A tale about the prince who never matured.

A poem about feeling like an outsider and disliking the evils of the world.

This is an excerpt from my novel "Fags" which tells the story of a fateful night in the life of a young gay man; a night when persuit of an infatuation led him down a path of denial and violence. Part mystery and part memorial to departed friends, this tale takes place in the Los Angles of the 1980s, among the discarded youths that played on her streets, searching for love or whatever passed for it then.

Love letters written by Raymond and Edouard.

When the world falls apart, one boy makes the wrong choice...

History is written by the victors, the winners, those in power, those at the top of society. Who tells the stories of those groups forgotten by history?

For centuries LGBTQ histories were hidden histories, histories forgotten by the mainstream, histories passed down by word-of-mouth. It has only been in recent decades that scholarly works have been written about gay history.

This collection of stories are about gay history, stories that focus on different events from gay history, events that helped shape our gay world, stories that cover so many different emotions.

Short pieces I wrote, whether bored or just got a cool idea. Primarily things I couldn't work out how to turn into a full story or lacked the time to do so and wanted to post anyway because I liked them.

A young doctor struggles to deal with death.

What a way to start the day.