Non-Fiction - Stories

Reflections of the past, realities of the present, and hopes for the future. These aren't prompts, and anything could wind up here, from poetry to monologues. It's all about words, and the forms they lead us to.

This story is unlike my others. It is the true account of a gay boy growing up in California in the second half of the twentieth century. A story many of us can tell.

There is darkness and light in this narrative.

A final farewell to a fellow author, great storyteller, and valued friend, Carlos Hazday.

This is based on prompt #144:

Describe your favorite place in summer. Make us feel it.

Poetry. Hopefully some good!

Verse about life, love and loss

A receptacle for my attempts at translating other poets’ work.

A collection of verse by other people to show we've always dared to speak our love's name.

A spiritual journey back to the belovèd, Siraj Aurangabadi’s epic narrative poem from 1738 presents a happy male couple split by deceit, sending one off on a quest to find himself and the true nature of God’s primary gift to humanity: love. Along the way, he meets a colonel’s son who offers him lifelong devotion, but our brokenhearted hero must be on his way again, to meet his ultimate fate, alone.

My attempt to sort through thoughts, feelings, and erratic ideas using poetic forms.