AC Benus - Stories

The Easiest Thing in the World, and other poems to mark third anniversary of the Pulse attack

**Warning: I don't think these should be read by anyone**

Fourteen-year-old Simon is getting a haircut. He has choices: a crew cut or a mullet; to continue his isolation, or to murmur a personal 'open sesame.' Later, with a little help from his friends, he finds out he is not nearly as alone as he imagined. And he suddenly can face the prospects of a long summer and entering high school in the fall with hope.

A young man agrees to meet an admirer on Valentine's Day, and both witness how fate can work behind the scenes.

Two unlikely souls come together for a consultation, but what is it the Punk is not telling the older lady, and what is it she's not telling herself?

Do you recall what it was like to be a kid back then . . . ?

I post this two part Whitman-based cantata in celebration of Pride Month.

…previously on Mojo, things got too hot to handle at the Flying Dutchman artist's compound in Long Beach. Kohl and Assauer set the 'divorce' aside because Assauer thinks he's being followed by the donkey cult folks. Kohl and his eighteen-year-old boyfriend, Gordon, agree to quit L.A. with him and make their way to an old customer of Assauer's…

What happens when a troupe of musically-inclined, shape-shifting badgers takes over a not-so abandoned Buddhist temple? Read this classic Japanese fairytale and find out /emoticons/default_smile.png">

A peregrination, an exploration, a journey of mind, heart and memory,

I recall some San Francisco places that mean the most to me.

...some old entries I stumbled upon in the course of my research...