Of Diapers and Butter, a Holiday Exclusive!

I managed to celebrate Buy Nothing Day. It was pretty easy. You see, it's too fucking cold and miserable to leave the house. I squandered the day drinking coffee (and might I recommend Cafe Bustelo cafe espresso, if you must buy a can off the supermarket shelf), eating pecan pie, and watching [...]

Clean-Up On Aisle Seven!

Ever since iTunes made some unauthorized update to my computer several months back, causing me to get pissed off and attempt to delete the program, and thus allowing my techno ignorance to further muck up things, I have been unable to play CDs on my computer.  Unlike PCs, Macs don't come preloaded with a basic [...]

Does Joey V. Love His GLBT Patrons?

I was at Gemini Ink earlier this week for my novel writing group.  Because, least you forget, National Novel Writing Month is more than half over.
My first 12 pages of The Cucuy Club were open for feedback.  Unlike many of these writing groups where everyone kisses one another's posterior parts, I think I got some [...]

The Pustules Are Finally Beginning To Subside

Monday morning I was thinking about crawling out of bed and facing the day. But, really, why? I'd put the trash out on the curb the night before. So I was good there. And then I heard the rumbling of a diesel engine that didn't sound like the trash crew, and [...]

THE CUCUY CLUB — first draft of chapter one

THE CUCUY CLUB
by Erik Bosse
CHAPTER 1
Jaime jumped out of my truck before I even had time to set the parking brake. We’d spent the last hour on a rutted dirt road and I never managed to get above second gear. A grinning man in his forties — a contemporary of both myself and Jaime — [...]