Flash fiction: “A Perfect Gentleman”
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Flash fiction: “A Perfect Gentleman”

“A Perfect Gentleman” is another one of the experimental flash prose pieces I wrote in graduate school. It’s based on my frequent personal experience with opening doors for men and how they react to it.

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A kiss-off letter becomes a poem
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A kiss-off letter becomes a poem

A now-former friend told me she has no sympathy for anybody who joins the military for any reason. Upon hearing this, I literally fell out in tears. Days later, she emailed me an apology that showed she still didn’t recognize the wrongness of her statement. The kiss-off email I wrote back turned into a poem.

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Old writing on my new website
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Old writing on my new website

A new addition to my website is an old poem I wrote probably the day after Michael Jackson’s death. The Twin Cities Pride Festival was that weekend, and I read this poem during my appearance at the Power to the People Stage, a performance space at the festival created by and for BIPOC queer people.

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You’ve got three days to get a free book
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You’ve got three days to get a free book

The Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale will be over on August 1, so that gives you three days to get a free ebook copy of Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time.

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