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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

The duality of soul mates and family obligation

Light To Right Love is one of my favorite short stories for many reasons. One of the main ones is because I got to use another of my galactic races/creations which I plan to use for another project. It’s something I especially like to do since, as I’ve stated before, all LGBTQ+ youths feel like aliens at one point in their life. Another reason for this short being one of my favorites is because of the openness and reality of the storyline. It’s also the first time that I use my twist ending for something good. But, alas, I’m getting ahead of myself because I haven’t told you the main reason why this story is one of my favorites.

“I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

The duality of gay dating apps

It’s the only LGBTQ+ science fiction short story where it was a high school love story. Well…I can’t say a love story per see. “Meet-Cute” is the more accurate term. I’ve always been a fan of that term because we all had it at some point in our lives. More than once for me. So, I wanted to try my hand at creating a story solely revolving around them. That was the sole intention towards Ice Breaker.

“It’s an universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

The duality of “str8 chaser

What if the homos and heteros HAD to work together to survive?

Fair warning, readers, this has got to be my subtlest political work in the LGBTQ realm of science fiction. However, I must confess that I took the events of my ex-communication of a friend as the inspiration for this one. I spoke to my brother and best friend, Tyler, about it and they felt that it was a story worth telling. But, as usual, I’m getting ahead of myself so let me dial it back and tell you how Can We Ever Be Friends came into existence. It’s actually one of my favorite sources of inspiration.

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

The duality of coming out

My Best Judy was always meant to be a cute little story about a teenager being guided out of the closet by a gentle soul. So, I took quite a liking to writing this story after meeting a foreign exchange student from Lebanon who I helped realize who he really was in the community. It was a gentle nudge where I got to answer all his questions without poking and prodding into his mental state. This was the very essence I wanted to compass the story around. The “science fiction” part of it came in the oddest of places.

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

The duality of murder

I must confess that this story, A Killer’s Confession, was something that was going to be incredibly dark. But the original writing gave me enough pause that I had to redo it. There’s a delicate balance between light and darkness that has to be maintained in my theme of duality. This story was no different from the others but the process was a bit more difficult than the rest.