In the 1990s, I started writing a bunch of short stories based on liminal moments in my life growing up gay in the 1960s and 1970. Over the next twenty-five plus years, they became the a fictionalized memoir of Steven Sterling, a character very much like me growing up very much like I had grown … Continue reading Tag
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Best Game Ever
The queer YA science fiction novel you’ve all been waiting for is here! It is springtime at Bolin College and death is in the air. In this fast-paced virtual reality thriller, a group of gay, nonbinary, and straight college nerds on the Virtual Campus Challenge team are racing toward a mandatory system demonstration in order to … Continue reading Best Game Ever
“Tag,” The Baltimore Review, Volume 1, Number 2, Summer 1997 Issue
Short Story - excerpt My cousins’ farm stretched out behind us, my grandmother’s summer cottage was tucked under a stand of trees that erupted beside a tidal drainage ditch, a ditch that emptied into our broad Creek, then into the Choptank River and the Chesapeake Bay. A cicada year they said, but it was too … Continue reading “Tag,” The Baltimore Review, Volume 1, Number 2, Summer 1997 Issue