Stories

Our heroes visit Miles' cousin in St. Louis in early December 1976. A collaboration with AC Benus covering the time of his story, Katie's Sketchbook. This is seven months ahead of the main story.

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Coming out is a process, with lots of steps. The first step, though, is one of the hardest.

This fictional story is a semi-autobiographic account of the author's decision to come out to his wife. (2007 Spring Anthology - Endings and Beginnings)

Random snapshots of the world

Coming out to his entire 50th reunion high school class was oddly facilitated by his high school girl friend.

A member of the Sanitaria Springs group of associated stories, Dreamcatcher plays heavily with Cynus's characters Logan and Seth - You really should read 'Another Day in Parodyse, The Bearded Bromance and Teammates before this. Then you should read its companion, Underdogs.

Best friends realize what was finally there all along.

Elijah sometimes feels as though he doesn't belong. He's still in the closet, and he is the only Jewish boy in the whole dorm. During the end of the school year, Elijah's friends make him feel included when they gift him a Jewish ornament, a menorah, to hang from the Christmas tree in the common room. When it goes missing overnight, the consequences threaten to spoil the holiday spirit for everyone. As Elijah pieces together what happened, he discovers more than one truth.

Illuminated is a journey, an awakening, a discovery. It is Logan Blake's search for a truth that will set him free from the chains that bind him to a lie. And, in order to survive this journey, those around him will experience a bitter betrayal, but will he experience deliverance?

John Williams cant remember his life before he wrote a novel based on it. Can he regain all that he has lost by reading his novel?