Category: Prose and Poetry
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Secret of Her Success
Tanya wasn’t a hooker because she liked anonymous sex. The best tricks came and went, and the sooner the better. Of course, she occasionally had a John who was a good lover, but that created other problems for her.
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“Long Lost Love”
I submitted this partially-factual short to San Francisco niche publisher Manic D. Press in 1994 for inclusion in their LGBTQ anthology Beyond Definition. They gutted it and tossed half of it away. [Grrrrr…] Here’s the original.
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Dirty Tricks
One amusing and one dysfunctional short story about prostitution, one of which happened to a sexworker I loved very deeply. Fortunately, her story is “Courtney’s” cagey getaway.
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Life Sentence
From my book Misery Loves Company… I think I love you, but you’ve got that HIVbut maybe this is not such love as it isa strong infatuation or even a healthy lustbut… then… maybe not so healthysince making love to you just mightgive me a disease that makes the worldtreat you like a leper, save […]
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“Gilded Cage”
A fucked up poem for a fucked up woman. I realized only later what a huge favor you did, doing me like that. It did have its moments, but… She climbs and flits and soars and glides,the feathered beauty, so alive, so free to fly and flythen one fine day she ‘lights upon a sill […]
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Wicked Wanda
I needed a short break from politics and this seemed like a good way to it. This poem is the first piece I wrote for my 1993 chapbook Misery Loves Company. It’s a tribute to my bestest best friend in the world, without whom I would have literally been dead several times over. She and […]
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The Bryant Patch
A true story from Christine’s chapbook Misery Loves Company about the time her lover tried to “break” into jail for a conjugal visit at the SF Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street.