Short Stories/Personal Reflections

The Trial of PeterBear (unpublished)
A somewhat silly story from childhood of putting my teddy bear on trial for a heinous crime.

Catch
Playing catch with my brother and all the games we play.

Alex and Eric
Two best friends, a sleep over and an innocent encounter.

(unpublished)
An illuminating experience about the power of being a teacher.

Flying with Socks On (unpublished)
One of my earliest and purest memories - a field trip in pre-school.

Batting Practice
Short script about a stranger and an impromtu baseball game.

Peter's Ps (unpublished)
Handwriting and personality analysis with my effeminate classmate.

Fairy Godparents
A five year old gets more than he bargained for when he asks, "Daddy, what does gay mean?"

A Family Chosen
Love for a friend, even a female one, can be powerful.

Pleasure Trip
Meeting a new friend in Boston

Down and Out
Fiction about a gay man's bout with unemployment and homophobia.
This won a UCLA award for best fiction piece in the UCLA newsmagazines, 1995.

Losing Jason
Junior High School. Brutal. Even more so when your best friend asks you on the playground if you're gay.

Paying For It
A gay man's rite of passage: buying a Playgirl.

Stranger in my Arms
Being a bodyguard for a seven year old.

A Gay Brother
Fiction about a friend's brother coming out on graduation day.

The Game
The game the mother of an autistic child plays.

Artistic Integrity
Fiction about when a gay writer encounters the perils of the heterosexual publishing world.

Tommy
Watching my high school crush give a wrestling demostration brings up some interesting . . . memories.

Monster
A coming out man visits the bookstore and gets some unneeded, unwanted judgement.

A Homeric Ode to Hyacinthus (unpublished)
Hyacinthus was Apollo's lover that you never heard about. In this story I wrote for a classics class, I attempt to retell their tragic story in the style of a Homeric ode.

Letting Him In
My memories of my first date with David.

Swimming
Swimming with David makes me remember swimming with my family.

Wasted On Me
A female stripper dances on a gay man's lap.

Essays/Nonfiction. Mine and others'.

Crappily Ever After
Where are all the positive gay characters in film and literature?

Article about one teen's suicide
I didn't write this story about a gay teen who killed himself.
This story appeared April 6, 1997. It's about as tragic and touching as you can get. And some people say homophobia doesn't exist . . .

Let Wedding Bell's Ring
An essay I wrote about gay marriage that was published in UCLA's Daily Bruin.

A Brief Foray into Poetry

Where His Soles Don't Touch
A NON-angry poem.