Adrift after high school graduation, socially inept, highly intelligent Robert MacKenzie infuriates his younger sister, baffles his parents and alienates most everyone else with his unconventional ways. His only real emotional connection is with his friend Mrs. Scoggins, a cranky 76 year-old woman dying of cancer. Adrift after her death, Robert reconnects with Simon, a former classmate who has returned to spend one final summer in his old home town before entering college. Simon is everything Robert is not: athletic and popular. Without quite intending to, he offers Robert a tantalizing...
Adrift after high school graduation, socially inept, highly intelligent Robert MacKenzie infuriates his younger sister, baffles his parents and aliena...
Navigating the roller coaster of living a gay life can prove challenging when inundated by religious judgment and misunderstanding. Sticked, Stoned & Bottled, a poem by Scott Gibson, uses a prescriptive form as a metaphor for the structured life that organized religion and other man-made institutions attempt to create. Gibson's language flows with the ups and downs of life, beautiful at times yet laborious at others, giving the reader the emotional ride that most gay people experience each day in their attempt to find their own happiness and truth.
Navigating the roller coaster of living a gay life can prove challenging when inundated by religious judgment and misunderstanding. Sticked, Stoned & ...
Twenty-seven-year-old Alexandra "ZeeZee" Hayward and her older brother, Mitchell, live in their childhood home, drifting aimlessly through existence. Mitchell works in a furniture warehouse, while ZeeZee is an assistant manager at the Gingerbread Cottage day care-a job with few challenges or demands. Theirs is a curiously isolated existence.
The world, however, is about to intrude on the siblings' aimless routine.
A casual flirtation with the father of one of her day care charges plunges ZeeZee into a series of clandestine meetings-which become more problematic as she befriends her...
Twenty-seven-year-old Alexandra "ZeeZee" Hayward and her older brother, Mitchell, live in their childhood home, drifting aimlessly through existenc...
