Lisa Arbitrary - AttentionIsArbitrary M/M Blog’s
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I'm in the same boat Brandon. It can be hard to keep your chin up. No worries though, you've already hooked us with your characters and your writing. We'll be here :)
something like this.....
...oh wait, that's
my fantasy.
Total-Heart-Flip!!!
I'm,of course, all about Anderson and Lem, but the peek at the "two other men" just sent me soaring!!!
I'm gonna have a smile all day now :D
Brandon wrote: "Catching up on my TBR list and trying not to add ten more books to it for every one that I read."Heh, that's the trick isn't it? I don't think my TBR has ever shrunk.
I am late to this party, but WOW! Congratulations Brandon.
I think "we" live in something of a bubble around here. Sometimes I think everyone who has read a book in "my" genre is here on GR and I've talked to them. Ha! It's really wonderful to know that there is a world of people out there that have read something I've enjoyed so much AND that the ones that are here, in this group, are a special few. I'm so glad that a book like Afflicted has brought us together :)
Oooh, good question Christine.
So we've confirmed Brandon is a:
Meat lover
Spider hater
How about sports? Favorites? Player or observer? Yes, we consider clubbing a sport.
::shivers::
Snakes are my weakness. And we've had snakes all summer :(
Furry spiders, eh. I'd rather not have 'em around, but I can deal.
We get geckos now and again, they move so weird, they kinda get to me too.
Well Christine, obviously tooo clever for me. But I absolutely LOVE it!!!
OH! HoT!!!Ohhhhhh 0_0
I'm mostly blonde.
Brandon wrote: "I like meat. :)
Me too!
Sure, I'll bite -
Are you:
Vegan
Vegetarian
Carnivorous
Flexitarian
Pescetarian
Or some other uhm, eater?
:)
Today's post by Lost 'n Found Youth on FB broke my heart. I hope it's okay to post this here.
Via deirdre -
https://www.facebook.com/LostNFoundYouthSpoiler tag to save space:
(view spoiler)[
This is a post that shares both Good and Bad news...
Lets get the BAD out of the way and end with a positive note.
Allow me to tell you the story of Matthew.
Matthew called the LNF hotline last week at around 4PM. He had been encouraged to do so by some friends. He came from Alabama to Atlanta about a month ago. He has been couchsurfing for the last month with friends he meets. But - as always, that is shortly coming to an end and he needs to find a place to stay. We at LNF explain that we would have a space coming available and that we need more info, Matthew does not respond. This is not unusual as a youth on the street as phone run out of battery and need to recharge.
At 11:30 Mathew texts the hotline again and says that the place he had lined up for the nite had fallen through. This was one of the nites last week that was cold and rainy. I texted back and said that we would couchsurf him until we had a spot or could find a location for him and that I was on my way to pick him. He is very excited.
At 11:40 I pull into the local coffehouse where alot of our youth congregate. I meet Matthew. He is 20 years old, longer blond hair, blue eyes, tats, piercings, and maybe 120#s soaking wet.
He puts his stuff in the car and we head to LNF house. He is very easy to talk to and seems intelligent. He asks if I had any food, so I stop and get him so fast food. We get to LNF and start filling out paperwork as he eats. I know he is exhausted, so I give him a quick tour and tell him to go to bed. I explain that we would finish the process in the morning.
Morinng comes and Matthew awakes and we start the interview, right after the drug test.
Matthew brings the sample and before it could even be turned over to process, he states - I’m going to fail that test. He explains that he had been using. It is explained that we could work with him if he was ready to stop but drugs are not allowed in the program. Matthew said that he understood but was not ready to stop. At his request, we took him back to midtown and drop him off.
We explain that we are available for him if he needs us to just call for food, clothes, or to talk - that he needed to understand that he had value in the world and that there are people would care about him. He promised to call if needed.
We got THE CALL today. It is words you never want to hear about anyone.
Matthew had accidentially Overdosed in a hotel room over the weekend. This was verified thru APD
We called the number we had listed for him and his sister picked up. She was very kind and said that Matthew had mentioned LNF and hoped he could kick the habit and go into our program. She thanked us for trying to help and said our card was still in his wallet.
Needless to say this has not been a banner day for me. As Executive Director, my head tells me that he had done all that we could do for him and I know that.
My activist heart is a mess, it me wants to scream, ache, cry uncontrollably and I HAVE.
The combination of head and heart tells me that Matthew’s story has to be told to every Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Tran, Queer Friendly or Straight person that will listen. SO I AM!
Why? Because this as well as all the other stories we tell should never happen BUT they do.
The needless death of this young man has enraged and fuled the fires that burn within me to tell these stories and get in front of people that need to know, that need to help.
In hopes that it starts a conversation between familes, friends, partners, everyone - that this does not need to happen.
We are doing great things at LNF, but we can and WILL do more. Our communtity was always stepped up and made LNF what it is today.
It is time to look to the future...
We promised in May that we would deliver the following three things
Thrift Store / Drop In Center / Expanded Housing
-We are expanding our capacity three fold for our current propgram in the next year.
This will give us emergency capacity and a drop in center.
Location and announcements on this coming soon.
-The BIG annoucement today was to be GOOD News.
We actually have signed a lease on a space that will allow us to open the Thift Shop,
the space is so HUGE that we will also open a DROP IN center that OUR KIDS need so despritly need.
So ATLANTA - we are ahead of schedule for what we promised, just not ahead enough for Matthew.
Please discuss with the people in your world. Donate to LNF and help us help more of our youth.
Your Servant
Rick Westbrook
Executive Director
Lost N Found Youth
(hide spoiler)]Rick just sounds like the most amazing human being. My heart is breaking as much for him as for Mathew.
A Nook??? That's blasphemy!
*kidding
Enjoy. I think as a published writer you'd really love seeing you work in all the different formats.
Ah, finally the secret is revealed!
Antonio is hot. Check out his Cocky Boys page here:
http://www.cockyboys.com/movietour/se...And he seems kind of sweet too :)
Great interview Brandon, thanks for entertaining us even more.
I added Cold to the prison romance list. And voted for it, of course ;)
Luckily there's a world of characters for you to develop for us. We know you're the man to do it.
Hard to imagine you writing chatty, weak characters though ;)
