Tag

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

“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