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When Ethan Elliot, the prodigal son with a poet’s heart, crosses paths with the eccentric Jules, their trajectories align, hurtling them far from the boroughs of New York City, on a life-changing, cross-country, roller-coaster ride into the bowels of Middle America. After a hap chance meeting on a subway in Manhattan, Ethan and Jules are forever bound by a single self-portrait. However, it’s only after we are introduced to the worldly, mystery drifter, Wolfgang, that their true colors begin to show. The three “lost souls…nbsp; take off in a Chevy Chevelle bound for Boonville, Missouri expecting to find themselves, the world they once knew, and their shared divination. What they don’t expect is to be taken hostage by a family member that they have never met. "Freaks of Nature" is a coming of age story about forgiveness, providence, and our redemption as a human race. It takes the reader through Ethan’s slapdash, and often times frightening, view of today’s America, demanding us to face our gluttonous zeitgeist and nudging us back towards our intended humanity. But more than simply a story about a character’s growth into fruition; at approximately 90,000 words, it’s a commentary on the anomaly, or “freaks†, we’ve become as a society. First round draft. Looking for any advice: creative, technical, what have you.

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FATHERLIKE is about a woman dealing with her father’s desertion of her as a child, her husband coming to terms with his sexuality, their separation and battle for custody of their son, the consequences of deceit, and love’s ignorance of convention. It tracks the parallel stories of an estranged husband and wife as they come to terms with their own and their family’s secrets; of love, money, sexuality, paternity, and even a father’s death. The fight for their child, across countries and cultures, ultimately forces them to face certain truths.

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A large woman is sensuously happy about herself.

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This is something I wrote right after reading Robert Hass' "Privilege of Being." The idea of angels looking down from heaven and watching 2 people having sex made me think of sadder or a less elevated account of a sexual encounter. I really couldn't think of a title for this because it seemed so experiential that a title would place it in some category I didn't want it to be in. This is the first work I have ever felt brave enough to publish anywhere so please be honest about whether it is worth reading or not.

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