psychology - Stories

Love returned. Love rejected. Ecstasy and obsession.

Kalil's family has kidnapped the son of an important man. Even though he's only sixteen, the boy is called upon to do extraordinary things.

When you have been betrayed by everyone you ever loved and thought loved you, when you have been utterly abandoned and are sooo alone, when you have nothing, no one, only pain and shame and abuse... what do you do? What can you do?

Poor Man's Son is the eleventh story in the CAP Saga. The story takes place in 2000, with Gathan Hayes and Will Schluter as our narrators. Many of the characters in this story were introduced in “Chronicles of an Academic Predator,” “1968,” “The Land Whore,” “Be Rad,” “Man in Motion,” “A Summer Love,” “If It Fits,” “Bloodlines,” “The Box,” and "Millennium."

Adam is going home for his birthday the weekend before his family Cosplay event. He's bringing Patrick to meet everyone and Justin just because. All is not well because a troublesome neighbor is killed and Adam's mom is blamed.
Adam has to find who is framing his mother and clear his name.

Strolls; encounters; kisses through closed gates; lighted windows seen from below; rumpled bedsheets turning up men’s shirts . . . These are just a few of the images in August Stramm’s poetry collection titled “DU” (“THOU”).

What follows is a complete, fresh-look translation of the thirty-one poems of this set.

A peregrination, an exploration, a journey of mind, heart and memory,

I recall some San Francisco places that mean the most to me.

A Selection of Robert Jentzsch Poems, Translated in English for the first time.

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A brief encounter in a bar, but one that turns out to be uniting in spirit.

This is a story of good intentions and how they don't always work out happily.