A Few Sharp Sticks

Thinking that most of what we engage in is voluntary association, I read through the book, selecting and collapsing random sentences into what I refer to as “kernels.” I selected twenty-six kernels, and lettered them from A to Z. Building on these kernels by selecting key words, and defining them by using a similar selective process, but this time garnered from Funk & Wagnall’s Standard Handbook of Synonyms Antonyms & Prepositions, I generated further definitions, into which I infused a gay biography, sharpened with pointed questions, jokes, hypocritical religiosity, literary assumptions, art ownership and gay life descriptions for heterosexual readers. I don’t exclude gay readers.) I’ve never wanted to write cock-and-ball stories, but am rather more interested in writing about a different-thinking mind in a different-thinking brain: a way of seeing through the lens of gay sensibility where, in society at large, the unasked and unanswered question, “Did you choose your heterosexuality?” gets a thorough prodding, along with some “fluffy red hearts.” -- Brian Dedora