Andy has only dated women before meeting Tom, dates that have all been equally disastrous. Now, in the middle of his first kiss with a man, Andy feels like he's really getting in tune with himself. He quickly realizes that he's gotten in tune with a lot more than just his own sexuality--he's also hearing other people's thoughts, too, and most of them aren't things he wants to hear! With knowledge comes power, though, and the responsibility to use it to help when you can.

Plus, it gets you out of bad dates much faster.

"Gaydar" will be appearing in Superqueeroes, editted by Ellen Tevault, forthcoming from The Haworth Press.

Since "Gaydar" is forthcoming in a paying market, the first portion of it is available for online reading--
catch the rest when Superqueeroes hits bookstores!

Superqueeroes; ISBN 978-1-56023-737-2

Jason Murray is almost finished with his Master’s degree in Civil Engineering at UMass Amherst, in the final days before his dissertation defense, when he receives a very odd assignment from his advisor: go to New Jersey and drive the first cloverleaf interchange built in the U.S.  With one catch—he has to drive it backwards.  Now, everything he has studied for the last five years and the entire basis of his dissertation may turn out to be an intentional misunderstanding created by physicists and engineers in the 1920’s to hide a transit system unlike any Jason has traveled before.

"Cloverleaf One" explores the possibility that the places and patterns that appear to be designed with aesthetics in mind may have other purposes, hidden in plain sight if we only know how to look.  Set in our time, "Cloverleaf One" recognizes and involves the history upon which our understanding of the world is built while questioning whether or not we are fully considering that history, or simply dismissing it as uninformed and foolish.

"Cloverleaf One" is available in the Wyrdsmiths’ 2006 collection, New Wyrd: A Wyrdsmiths Anthology, which you can order by emailing here. To learn more
about the Wyrdsmiths, click here.

New Wyrd; ISBN 1-59971-966-5; 118pp.; $6.99 + S/H

In the newly formed colony of Mendari, strange trees have been discovered, fruited trees that have the side-effect of unlocking the minds of those who eat from them.  Now, in the tiny colony so far from Earth, a culture clash is developing that neither side could have foreseen, between those who can send their minds outside of their bodies and those who cannot, who will not eat the fruit.  Amid the tensions and the growing conflict, a young girl finds herself caught in a mental network that has begun to crash, and she must find a way to evolve, or die.

"Maelstrom" is one of a string of stories entitled The Mendarin Evolution, which explore the violent and dangerous nature of evolution.  Not all of the evolutions that occur are positive, and more often than not, evolution does not happen without a dire need for change.  In this series of stories, the characters are humans faced with a new frontier—telepathy—and must deal with the various implications of such a radical shift in perspective.

"Maelstrom" can be found in the Wyrdsmiths’ 2005 collection, Tales from the Black Dog: A
Wyrdsmiths Chapbook, which you can order by emailing here.

Tales from the Black Dog; ISBN 1-59971-965-7; 63pp.; $3.99 + S/H