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If Love Were Enough: A Novel for Everyone Who’s Loved Someone Across the Silence
Amazon Author Page | Read If Love Were Enough How do you stay in love with someone who is no longer close enough to touch—but still close enough to haunt every version of your day? If Love Were Enough isn’t about a breakup. It’s about that slow, aching fade before the breakup. The quiet corrosion…
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Behind the Heat: Why I Wrote Suté & Solitude
There’s something about kitchens that always felt a little like churches—hot, reverent, chaotic. A place where you suffer beautifully in the pursuit of perfection. Suté & Solitude was born from that heat. But it’s not just a culinary novel. It’s a love letter to every queer person who’s ever tried to outrun loneliness by working…
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Confessions from a Needy Son of a Bitch
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Constant Need for Reassurance Hi, I’m the human equivalent of a pop-up ad asking, “Are you mad at me?”—and I’m here to tell you what it’s like to live life as a high-functioning emotional warranty department. I require attention like plants need sunlight, like influencers need…
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Gay Enough to Be Oppressed, Not Gay Enough for the Invite to Fire Island
Welcome to the glamorous gray zone of gayness, where you’re just queer enough to be denied rights, but not queer enough to get an invite to the VIP section of your own community. I am what some might call a masculine gay man. Which, in today’s queer social economy, means I’m too straight-passing for the…
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The Trauma Olympics: Why I’m Retiring My Jersey
Let me start with this: I’ve seen some shit. I’ve been kicked out at 16 for being gay, subjected to conversion therapy, survived cancer, buried friends, lost my nursing license for reporting a mistake I didn’t even make, and watched my dreams crumble while overdressed in a Holiday Inn Express lobby. I’ve weathered abusive relationships,…
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The Silent War: My Battle Against Unsolicited Advice (and How I Mostly Lose)
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re the kind of person who starts sentences with “You know what you should do?” — please know I’m already plotting my escape. Politely. Silently. With a smile so tight it could slice through granite. Unsolicited advice is the glitter of social interaction. It shows…
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The Uncomfortable Mirror – Sometimes I’m the Problem, And That’s a Start
The familiar landscape of Abilene stretches around me, quiet and unassuming. I’m here for the week, a necessary pause in my journey for my monthly scan. It’s a grounding moment, a reminder of the quiet, ongoing battle within my own body, bringing both apprehension and a renewed sense of vulnerable purpose. Yet, even in this…
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The Alchemy of Laughter – Why Gay Men Excel at Turning Tragedy Into Comedy
The human experience is a tapestry woven with threads of joy and sorrow, triumph and despair. And perhaps nowhere is the profound alchemy of transforming darkness into light more beautifully, defiantly, and hilariously evident than within the gay male community. Today, my thoughts turn to a particular, potent truth: Why Gay Men Are the Best…
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True Blood – My Guilty Pleasure and the Surprisingly Sweet Essence of Southern Gothic Chaos
Welcome, fellow pop culture connoisseurs, to this week’s Screen Nectar Sips! Today, I’m pouring a rather intriguing, often messy, and utterly captivating glass of television essence as we journey into the sultry, supernatural bayous of True Blood. This isn’t a show I initially embraced with open arms; in fact, for a long time, it existed…
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The Unbreakable Reign – Why ‘Mean Girls’ Is the Ultimate Teen Comedy Classic
The fluorescent lights of the North Shore High School cafeteria, the clatter of lunch trays, and the hushed whispers of teenage hierarchy. From the moment Cady Heron steps into this bewildering social ecosystem, a cinematic classic unfolds, dissecting the brutal, hilarious, and often terrifying world of high school cliques with a precision that remains unmatched.…