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Born, raised, and currently living in Oregon, Wesley McCraw writes queer speculative fiction.

Wes graduated from the University of Oregon, where he completed the much-acclaimed Kidd Tutorial. During his time at the university, he was also a member of Write Club, where he trained under screenwriter Omar Naim (The Final Cut, Dead Awake).

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Average rating: 4.45 · 56 ratings · 17 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Forgiving 4.55 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	House of Cabal Volume One: Eden 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	House of Cabal Volume Three: Orchard it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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CriminOlly is a BookTuber that specializes in crime, pulp, and horror. He has talked a lot about disturbing books.

I was watching one of his reading updates, and he was in the middle of The Sluts by Dennis Cooper, so I decided to give it a shot. A recent disturbing book that I really liked was Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite, so I thought I wo

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Sunset at Zero Point

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Message to Adolf, Part 1

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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“The Kitten poster reminds me of Blake Snyder’s SAVE THE CAT! The Last Book on Screenwriting That You’ll Ever Need, which has a cover with a similar image. I hope the kitten falls to its death. This hope is not born out of maliciousness, but sympathy. What's the point of hanging in there if no one's going to save you? The little fucker can only hang on for so long.”
― Wesley McCraw, Brief Pose

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“[Professor] Frank recalled my idle remark some years ago: 'Never pass up the opportunity to have sex or appear on television.' Advice I would never give today in the age of AIDS and its television equivalent Fox News.”
― Gore Vidal, Point to Point Navigation

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“Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.”
― Gore Vidal

tags: ayn-rand, evil, greed, objectivism

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“Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: failure, finishing, happiness, inspirational, success

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“How, then, does one become an activist?

The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others inside us. We are all moved by injustice and discrimination. We are all, inside, concerned human beings. We all want to give more than to receive. We all want to live in a world where solidarity and companionship are more important values than individualism and selfishness. We all want to share beautiful things; experience joy, laughter, love; and experiment, together.”
― Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

tags: apartheid, chomsky, global-politics, injustice, israel, middle-east, palestine, politics

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