Tag: fiction
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I am in the House of Mercy
I’ve been writing shorter fiction this summer, while I’m on a break from my main manuscript. This excerpt is from one of those pieces of shorter fiction, titled Queer as Love. The story follows a married couple as one of them transitions from female to male. This part comes after the narrator, who is the cisgender spouse,…
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Short Story Publication: The Blind Tattooist
Today my short story, “The Blind Tattooist”, came out in issue three of |tap|. This story is important to me for a few reasons. It is that it is the first publication I’ve had in the two years since I began submitting short stories professionally, since I decided I would only submit to paying markets.…
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Excerpt: Up to No Good
My current main project is a novella tentatively titled “Bloom”. It’s about a man who believes he is straight, Ben, falling in love with his gay best friend, David. This is an excerpt. It occurs in the last third of the story, when Ben has begun really wrestle with the question of his sexuality. Is he straight? Is…
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The “B” Word
(Image: a smiling man pointing at the bisexual flag.) This article on bisexuality and bisexual people facing discrimination within the LGBT community gave me some food for thought the other day. Particularly about bisexuality in fiction, and male bisexuality in particular. I am writing a book with a male bisexual main character. After years of believing…
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Finishing
I am so close to finishing the final edits on this short story — and therefore being done with said story — I can taste it. Come to Daddy.
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Do It Again
Long time no post from me! Unfortunately this post won’t offer too much. This was just my writing soundtrack this evening. Incidentally (? or not) the chapter I wrote this evening was entirely about spanking. I really am writing Trufax Srs Bsns Literature tho.
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That moment when . . .
. . . you’re nearly 20,000 words into a project and you realize it should be written in first person present tense, not third person past tense.
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I’m sorry, but . . .
. . . I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome it is to write an entire chapter about fellatio.
J. S. Kuiken 