Fiction

Lies, All Lies

There I stood, all five eight of me, poolside at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, soaking wet in my retro bathing suit, holding a dry pair of tickets to the Emmys that night, in front of a gorgeous woman, and I didn’t know who I was, where I was, or why I was. Or, just as importantly, who she was and what she was to me.

Over the course of the next few days I discovered I was a thirty-something Emmy winning writer-actor showrunning a popular sitcom, but I had to learn about that one detail at a time until my memory came back. Then I realized I could be anyone I wanted to be, but I had to decide who that was and what that would mean for my girlfriend, my wife, my kids, my father, my brother, my cast, my agent, my PR maven, my assistant, and a 135 other people who depended on me for their livelihoods or their lives.

I had the opportunity to change my life completely, and I did, eventually doing something real for other people while my gay sitcom character came out as straight and flipped the script on my show and my life.

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Deviant Numbers

The great gene mapping project of the late 20th and early 21st centuries had located every trait on the double helix. Splicing, and then cloning, had made it possible to detemine the inclusion of any desired characteristics or the exclusion of any fault.

Humans could be designed like an automobile, created for specific purposes, and then reproduced exactly and endlessly by cloning. And they had, by the thousands, when trust in ordinary biology had become too risky. And to ensure that biology would mind its own business, genes for sexual preference had been controlled.

No mating would be allowed…

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Rug Berns

When the police told newspaper columnist Rob Berns that his brother, Danny, had committed suicide, jumping off the Vincent Thomas in the darkest hour of that black night, it just didn’t add up.

Danny was thoroughly middle class, in everything from possessions to life-style. He even wore ties with short sleeved shirts. And wingtips! If anyone should be gone, it was Berns….

But the search for his brother’s killer leads him to a hidden world of sex and sex addiction – and a horrible secret which he’ll have to fight against if he’ll ever solve the crime, bring his brother’s killer to justice – and see himself for who he really is.

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