The Man Whom Jesus LovedA NovelPaul R. BrennerThe year is 68 CE. Led by the fanatical Sicarii, the ideological dagger men, Jews seize Jerusalem, execute the Roman garrison, and begin to cleanse Judaea of all impurities and foreign influences, including Greek love. Nero sends Vespasianus with three legions to quell the revolt. Caught in this conflict is the Sacred Community of Men, whose leader is the man who was Jesus’ lover, and Joanna, in whose home was held the Last Supper with Jesus. To escape assassination, Jesus’ beloved flees Judaea for cosmopolitan Alexandria, where he has been accepted as a Visiting Scholar in the famous Temple of the Muses, the Mouseion.Within days of arriving in the city, fierce ethnic fighting breaks out between Greeks and Jews, disrupting his life and plans. Further complicating his life is Markos, the sexy, wealthy young Greek, who wants a relationship with him, Hakor, the young orphaned Egyptian boy whom he befriends, and Diokles, Director of Visiting Scholars, who takes more than an intellectual interest in him.He senses he is being followed without being able to identify by whom. When he and his friends are viciously attacked, they discover the Sicarii have him marked for assassination. Finally, to end the chaos, Tiberius Alexander, Governor of Egypt, recalls the legion from fighting bandits in the south of Egypt. As they attack the quarter, our hero is trapped and comes face to face with a Roman centurion with drawn bloody sword eager to kill. Will he survive?

The Man Whom Jesus LovedA NovelPaul R. BrennerThe year is 68 CE. Led by the fanatical Sicarii, the ideological dagger men, Jews seize Jerusalem, execute the Roman garrison, and begin to cleanse Judaea of all impurities and foreign influences, including Greek love. Nero sends Vespasianus with three legions to quell the revolt. Caught in this conflict is the Sacred Community of Men, whose leader is the man who was Jesus’ lover, and Joanna, in whose home was held the Last Supper with Jesus. To escape assassination, Jesus’ beloved flees Judaea for cosmopolitan Alexandria, where he has been accepted as a Visiting Scholar in the famous Temple of the Muses, the Mouseion.Within days of arriving in the city, fierce ethnic fighting breaks out between Greeks and Jews, disrupting his life and plans. Further complicating his life is Markos, the sexy, wealthy young Greek, who wants a relationship with him, Hakor, the young orphaned Egyptian boy whom he befriends, and Diokles, Director of Visiting Scholars, who takes more than an intellectual interest in him.He senses he is being followed without being able to identify by whom. When he and his friends are viciously attacked, they discover the Sicarii have him marked for assassination. Finally, to end the chaos, Tiberius Alexander, Governor of Egypt, recalls the legion from fighting bandits in the south of Egypt. As they attack the quarter, our hero is trapped and comes face to face with a Roman centurion with drawn bloody sword eager to kill. Will he survive?

The Man Whom Jesus LovedA NovelPaul R. BrennerThe year is 68 CE. Led by the fanatical Sicarii, the ideological dagger men, Jews seize Jerusalem, execute the Roman garrison, and begin to cleanse Judaea of all impurities and foreign influences, including Greek love. Nero sends Vespasianus with three legions to quell the revolt. Caught in this conflict is the Sacred Community of Men, whose leader is the man who was Jesus’ lover, and Joanna, in whose home was held the Last Supper with Jesus. To escape assassination, Jesus’ beloved flees Judaea for cosmopolitan Alexandria, where he has been accepted as a Visiting Scholar in the famous Temple of the Muses, the Mouseion.Within days of arriving in the city, fierce ethnic fighting breaks out between Greeks and Jews, disrupting his life and plans. Further complicating his life is Markos, the sexy, wealthy young Greek, who wants a relationship with him, Hakor, the young orphaned Egyptian boy whom he befriends, and Diokles, Director of Visiting Scholars, who takes more than an intellectual interest in him.He senses he is being followed without being able to identify by whom. When he and his friends are viciously attacked, they discover the Sicarii have him marked for assassination. Finally, to end the chaos, Tiberius Alexander, Governor of Egypt, recalls the legion from fighting bandits in the south of Egypt. As they attack the quarter, our hero is trapped and comes face to face with a Roman centurion with drawn bloody sword eager to kill. Will he survive?

HEMINGWAY FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Critical Comment: D.T. Max, New York Times Book Review: “Exceptional, smart and playful, a novel of quiet seductions. An imagined correspondence between Wilde and the author that turns into a drama of cross-century friendship.” Merlin Holland; author, grandson of Oscar Wilde:“A charming read. I’m sure Grandfather would have seen the fun of it.” Hillary Hemingway; Director, Hemingway Literary Festival: “What a delight to discover this unique voice. The novel is already the buzz of New York.” Jill Jackson,Syndicated columnist, King Features:“A brilliant correspondence, beautifully written and researched. Very funny stuff.” Ellis Hanson, Author, “Decadence & Catholicism”:“A style so conversational and amusing, it felt like Holloway was sitting at my dinner table. Postmodern parallels with Wilde abound – theatre is transmogrified into TV commercials, rentboys into go-go types in a hustler bar, Reading Gaol into a psycho-prison for sexual outcasts. They make for interesting echoes and dissonances between decadence and post-modernism, aestheticism and camp, innuendo and outness, sex as gross indecency and sex as medical problem.” Giovanna Franci,Professor of English, University of Bologna, Italy:“What a wonderful concept! Beautifully realized! I couldn’t put it down.” LINER NOTES: In February of 1993, enroute from Capetown, South Africa to Los Angeles, during a lay-over at London´s Cadogan Hotel, C. Robert Holloway is convinced he witnessed the arrest of Oscar Wilde from the very room he´s occupying. After badgering a reluctant night-manager, he learns that his room is indeed the same suite from which Wilde was ignominiously hauled away to Bow Street Police Station in April of 1895.   Emboldened by a split of honor-bar rose and a chocolate rush, he drafts a letter to Wilde, at once part apology - part adulation - part exorcism and no small part jet-lagged foolishness. Next morning,he deposits it in a Piccadilly post-box, and shortly departs for California, never giving it a second thought. Two weeks later a thick envelope tumbles from Holloway´s mail-box in West Hollywood.  Filling several pages, the flamboyant hand bears a strong resemblance to Wilde´s.  Its author´s observations on Holloway´s lineage and threadbare education are accurate enough to unnerve him, albeit momentarily.   Thus begins an audacious, outrageous, occasionally trenchant, often hilarious correspondence between a little-known TV producion designer and the most famous gay man in the Western world.

HEMINGWAY FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Critical Comment: D.T. Max, New York Times Book Review: “Exceptional, smart and playful, a novel of quiet seductions. An imagined correspondence between Wilde and the author that turns into a drama of cross-century friendship.” Merlin Holland; author, grandson of Oscar Wilde:“A charming read. I’m sure Grandfather would have seen the fun of it.” Hillary Hemingway; Director, Hemingway Literary Festival: “What a delight to discover this unique voice. The novel is already the buzz of New York.” Jill Jackson,Syndicated columnist, King Features:“A brilliant correspondence, beautifully written and researched. Very funny stuff.” Ellis Hanson, Author, “Decadence & Catholicism”:“A style so conversational and amusing, it felt like Holloway was sitting at my dinner table. Postmodern parallels with Wilde abound – theatre is transmogrified into TV commercials, rentboys into go-go types in a hustler bar, Reading Gaol into a psycho-prison for sexual outcasts. They make for interesting echoes and dissonances between decadence and post-modernism, aestheticism and camp, innuendo and outness, sex as gross indecency and sex as medical problem.” Giovanna Franci,Professor of English, University of Bologna, Italy:“What a wonderful concept! Beautifully realized! I couldn’t put it down.” LINER NOTES: In February of 1993, enroute from Capetown, South Africa to Los Angeles, during a lay-over at London´s Cadogan Hotel, C. Robert Holloway is convinced he witnessed the arrest of Oscar Wilde from the very room he´s occupying. After badgering a reluctant night-manager, he learns that his room is indeed the same suite from which Wilde was ignominiously hauled away to Bow Street Police Station in April of 1895.   Emboldened by a split of honor-bar rose and a chocolate rush, he drafts a letter to Wilde, at once part apology - part adulation - part exorcism and no small part jet-lagged foolishness. Next morning,he deposits it in a Piccadilly post-box, and shortly departs for California, never giving it a second thought. Two weeks later a thick envelope tumbles from Holloway´s mail-box in West Hollywood.  Filling several pages, the flamboyant hand bears a strong resemblance to Wilde´s.  Its author´s observations on Holloway´s lineage and threadbare education are accurate enough to unnerve him, albeit momentarily.   Thus begins an audacious, outrageous, occasionally trenchant, often hilarious correspondence between a little-known TV producion designer and the most famous gay man in the Western world.

HEMINGWAY FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Critical Comment: D.T. Max, New York Times Book Review: “Exceptional, smart and playful, a novel of quiet seductions. An imagined correspondence between Wilde and the author that turns into a drama of cross-century friendship.” Merlin Holland; author, grandson of Oscar Wilde:“A charming read. I’m sure Grandfather would have seen the fun of it.” Hillary Hemingway; Director, Hemingway Literary Festival: “What a delight to discover this unique voice. The novel is already the buzz of New York.” Jill Jackson,Syndicated columnist, King Features:“A brilliant correspondence, beautifully written and researched. Very funny stuff.” Ellis Hanson, Author, “Decadence & Catholicism”:“A style so conversational and amusing, it felt like Holloway was sitting at my dinner table. Postmodern parallels with Wilde abound – theatre is transmogrified into TV commercials, rentboys into go-go types in a hustler bar, Reading Gaol into a psycho-prison for sexual outcasts. They make for interesting echoes and dissonances between decadence and post-modernism, aestheticism and camp, innuendo and outness, sex as gross indecency and sex as medical problem.” Giovanna Franci,Professor of English, University of Bologna, Italy:“What a wonderful concept! Beautifully realized! I couldn’t put it down.” LINER NOTES: In February of 1993, enroute from Capetown, South Africa to Los Angeles, during a lay-over at London´s Cadogan Hotel, C. Robert Holloway is convinced he witnessed the arrest of Oscar Wilde from the very room he´s occupying. After badgering a reluctant night-manager, he learns that his room is indeed the same suite from which Wilde was ignominiously hauled away to Bow Street Police Station in April of 1895.   Emboldened by a split of honor-bar rose and a chocolate rush, he drafts a letter to Wilde, at once part apology - part adulation - part exorcism and no small part jet-lagged foolishness. Next morning,he deposits it in a Piccadilly post-box, and shortly departs for California, never giving it a second thought. Two weeks later a thick envelope tumbles from Holloway´s mail-box in West Hollywood.  Filling several pages, the flamboyant hand bears a strong resemblance to Wilde´s.  Its author´s observations on Holloway´s lineage and threadbare education are accurate enough to unnerve him, albeit momentarily.   Thus begins an audacious, outrageous, occasionally trenchant, often hilarious correspondence between a little-known TV producion designer and the most famous gay man in the Western world.

An Okie from Aspen is a lighthearted look at gay life in one of the world’s most famous and glamorous resorts by someone who actually lived there full-time for twenty-six years then left.  It is also the story of the frustrations and foibles of a failed artist turned wanna-be-writer looking for meaning and love in his lonely life.

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“There was, at least, one other problem with his life: he lived in Aspen, Colorado.  Most people would not think that a problem, or perhaps a poor-little-rich-kid kind of problem.  But the thing was, he wasn’t rich.  Had never been rich. He just managed to live there, for over twenty-five years and living in Aspen is a hard thing to do.

The town was notorious for the expensive housing, and food, and clothing, and gasoline or just about any other necessity in life, for one thing.  The climate could kill you, for another.

Justin had a beat-up old four-wheel-drive pickup he sometimes drove downvalley to shop, especially if he just had to get out that town before he went crazy, but finding affordable housing was the principal obstacle to the good life in Aspen.

He often had to share houses or condominiums with roommates.  Oh, that dreaded word!  When Justin was young he could handle roommates, but ever since he had gotten older, he hated them.  The was nothing like learning about human nature by living with roommates.  The selfishness!  The egoism!  The greed!  And that was just what he discovered about himself.

Roommates never saw anything wrong about themselves.  The blindness was always so surprising.  For Justin, a roommate’s company might sometimes be rewarding, if he ignored the dirty kitchen, but it was always ruined when their out-of-town friends and relatives came to visit.  And come they always did.  No one could pass up a free visit to Aspen in those years.  The visitors usually paid back the hospitality by taking Justin’s roommate out to dinner.

Of course, Justin could have found a significant other to help pay the outrageous rents for the little apartments around town, but it never happened.  Or at least he had never allowed it to happen.  He knew from earliest childhood that he was bound for a solitary existence.  He needed no one!

He desired many, of course, but those that wanted him, he did not want.  And those he wanted had just left on the Saturday morning commuter flight out of town, their week long vacation at an end with the fond memory of screwing a local.”

This is a true story: The lawyers have demanded that we call it fiction to protect the guilty: EIGHT friends and one new addition all come together in an incredible burst of circumstance and drama. Each one has their goals, desires, weaknesses and dirty obsessions and each one of them set out to conquer New York by using anything that they have to succeed, including their bodies. One is even searching for love in the sea of muscular piranhas called Chelsea. I invite you to come along for the journey and see who wins and who fails miserably as they play the game of life. You just might find out, how curiosity killed the Chelsea boy.

This is a true story: The lawyers have demanded that we call it fiction to protect the guilty: EIGHT friends and one new addition all come together in an incredible burst of circumstance and drama. Each one has their goals, desires, weaknesses and dirty obsessions and each one of them set out to conquer New York by using anything that they have to succeed, including their bodies. One is even searching for love in the sea of muscular piranhas called Chelsea. I invite you to come along for the journey and see who wins and who fails miserably as they play the game of life. You just might find out, how curiosity killed the Chelsea boy.

Forced to slow down and take a vaction, Lt. Ki Dicer uses the time to renovate; however, the murder of a popular preacher cuts her vacation short.  Almost immediately her partner, Lou Ayers who called her to the scene, suspects a coverup. When a second, then a third preacher dies and the congregation behaves strangely, Dicer is confronted with the real possibility that Evil exists.

After she is wounded, Lt. Dicer unexpectedly receives information from Fuentes, a "retiring" crime boss and a mysterious group of women as she pursues the connection between the preachers' death and the latest fad drug, GreenTarts.  As her cousin becomes involved in the case, Ki ponders the tangled relationship between the black and white sides of her family.  

Meanwhile, she takes over the training of an openly gay officer, Jill Merlo, whose partner finds a generous patron in the incomparable Rita "Rex" Xorron.  However all may not be what it seems when Dicer and her team becomes aware that Xorron's move into certain areas of the city follows a suspiciously familiar pattern.

Fraternity life, football players, dormatory living, a big Road Trip, and Spring Break on a boat make for one exciting year at Kensington University. It´s Buck´s last year of college and Zack, Scott, and Steve´s first. Some of our boys are coming of age and some others are coming to terms. Going from being "Big Man on Campus" in high school to a lowly freshman in college may be tough, but it´s nothing compared to the anxiety of approaching graduation and the real-world growing near.

Short stories with gay themes by one of America's best poets.

Short stories with gay themes by one of America's best poets.

Who are the people who must have lived in order for us to be here today? How many of us can trace our families back for more than a couple of generations? How much do we know about our direct ancestors who lived 200 years ago? Are we making love today to people we are actually related to? Both genetics and fate maintain that this may indeed be the case.

"The Last Love of Pedro Balaclava's Neighbor" is a complex story told in a series of vignettes which ultimately alternate between present-day Mexico City and the Mexico City of 1800. A young Mexican, Pedro Balaclava, moves in to the elegant apartment building where an old Englishmen is his neighbor in the adjoining penthouse. They begin a relationship over a glass of sherry, a relationship which at first conforms to the usual refined lifestyles of wealthy gay men: Elegant parties attended by interesting people, from gay bathhouse owners to the uproariously dressed French ambassador's wife; weekends at private villas in Acapulco; choppy hovercraft rides from Naples to Capri; disappointed loves at chic Parisian hotels.

During a weekend retreat at the beach, the strikingly handsome Fulgencio Cohiba, the son of a wealthy Cuban tobacco magnate, reveals to the central characters the collected diaries of his family, stretching back over 200 years. This revelation unleashes a whirlwind of unexpected genealogies, twists of fate which (like all twists of fate) border on the incredible, and a gallery of characters with identical names which fuse into the old Englishman's collective memory of his past. A passionate relationship which took place between Pedro Balaclava's 19th century forbear and the old Englishman's ancestor, John Wilson, becomes the cornerstone for the final days of the Englishman's life. Unknowingly near to death, (like all of us), his lovemaking with Pedro is haunted and enthused by the ghosts of their two young forefathers, who loved each other two hundred years earlier.

In this novel of love between souls which cannot be bound by the constraints of time, Gerard McGorian conjures up a magical and deliberately intangible world of memory, myth, faith, alienation, and belonging. Historical characters from Simon Bolivar to Charles de Gaulle make cameo appearances alongside the violent Roberto Cohiba and the passionate lover himself, Pedro Balaclava.

Although the story takes place in locations as varied as Naples, Cuba, Berlin, Liverpool, New York, and Acapulco, it is Mexico City which plays the starring role as a character in itself. The mythical city of the Aztecs comes alive in striking imagery and helps guide the fates of the 19th century and modern-day protagonists. From its fame as the legendary city in the mountains "where the air is clear" to its present incarnation as one of the most polluted cities on earth, the ancient city of Tenochtitlan is edging towards death as surely as the old Englishman. In a surprising and final twist, fate brings the Englishman and the city together, revealing them to have been more closely related than anyone could ever have imagined.

Jordan and Jon are from two different worlds. Jon is openly gay, while Jordan is in search of himself. Jon loves God as much as Jordan does. Yet they live two separate lives. On the day they meet--sparks fly. But Jon and Jordan have a long, rugged path to follow to fulfill their dreams. Will Jordan ever free himself from his parents who are psychotically overly obsessed in Christianity. What’s in store for these two young men? Can love bind them together and teach them things about each other? Is their love real? Does love so different to many, yet so natural to others exist? Is Homosexuality nothing but lust, or is there more to it than that? Can two openly gay men be born again Christians? Will homosexuals ever have the same rights as others, such as marriage or the right to adopt? Will Jordan and Jon´s story change the way we look at homosexuality?