It’s Always Sunrise Somewhere and Other Stories
From the Acclaimed Author of "Sparks in the Dark"
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...he lunged at me and dragged me into the pool with the paper still in my hand. I held the paper above my head so as not to get it wet as I climbed back out of the pool. I ran cautiously around the pool after him, my jeans, heavy as chlorinated fluid clang to my crotch exposing the beginnings of an erection. Hank stood on the other side, grinning, his legs twitching, knowing that I was coming. I started after him, but he jumped into the pool fully clothed before I even had a chance to get to him. I jumped in. He didn’t know that I’m a better swimmer than he was. I caught up to him easy. I pounced onto his back. At that point we simultaneously toppled over and his weight almost drowned me. He wiggled under my grasp trying to get a way; I lowered my hands further down to his groin area, pleasantly surprised to see that he too was erect with the cataclysmic force of rushing adrenaline. Hank wiggled like a trapped snake. His masculine backside bumped against my pelvic, toying with my palpable stiffness. I gasped fearing my own desire, failing to realize that I have freed the thick white fluid that threatened to explode my gonads, sending spurts of joy all in the confines of my now severely tight blue jeans. I started to panic hoping that Hank wasn’t aware of this. What if he turns around and upon seeing my conspicuous desire barks out “fag!!!” at me or something.
He twisted around in a half circle and pushed me away from him playfully. I landed on my back, my head partly sank below the surface and some water got into my nose. I came up gasping for air...
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It’s Always Sunrise Somewhere and Other Stories is the author’s second publication. This anticipated book will reveal more of his talent. It’s a collection of short fictional stories that are imbued with Caribbean flare and with a wide range of topics (i.e. love and lost, the immigrant experience, sex, sexuality, oppression, nostalgia, racism, religion, spirituality, psychopathology, coming of age and poverty). However, humor, pathos, parody and most importantly hope and inspiration are a reoccurring theme permeating throughout all of the relatively interconnected stories. In "3.am at the Café", disparate lives intersect with a prostitute, two closeted gay men, a cheating married man and a waitress who’s seen it all. In "The Purloined Heart" the supernatural, in the form of Haitian Voodoo rendering a macabre dance of love & obsession ; the semi-auto biographical "A Candle for Lina" a young boy remembers his Nanny from childhood in Haiti; since all non-native Americans are descendants of immigrants here in the USA, you will most likely identify with the immigrant experience in "The Reason Why Crickets Chirp"; experience the pungent punch of racism in "The Whistler's Song" or a controversial re-imagining of a ubiquitous bible tale in "Nemesis"; a bildungsroman and coming out story in "Sultry Boy"; a tortured love story between a hefty middle aged island gal & a married white businessman in the midst of a midlife crisis in "Cri De Coeur/Cry of the Heart" and hope & inspiration rises on the horizon in the title piece "It's Always Sunrise Somewhere."
About the Author
Jacques Stanley Fleury is a Haitian American poet, author, educator, theater art critic, and former television show host of Dream Weavers at Cambridge Community Television (CCTV). He holds a degree in liberal arts. His first book, Sparks in the Dark: A Lighter Shade of Blue, A Poetic Memoir, available on Amazon.com, was endorsed by the Boston Globe, and his work has been featured worldwide on the International Network of Street Papers (INSP), Oddball Magazine, Spare Change News, Boston Haitian Reporter, Somerville Journal, The Alewife, the international anthology Home edited by Anne Brudevold of Eden Waters Press, and the anthology Class Lives: Stories from Our Economic Divide edited by Chuck Collins et al. and published by Cornell University Press in London, England. Once the official poet for the Annual Urban Walk for Haiti, his poem “Walk for Haiti, Walk for Humanity” is available on the Internet. And he wrote for Dr. Paul Famer’s Partners in Health, a fundraising nongovernment organization (NGO), to benefit Haiti’s hospital and schools in the Central Plateau. His collaborative CD, “A Lighter Shade of Blue” as a lyrics writer with folk musical group Sweet Wednesday is available on ITunes, with all the proceeds to benefit Haiti charity St. Boniface. He has made personal appearances at many venues, including Harvard University, North Eastern University, etc. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. www.facebook.com/J.S.Fleury. or visit him at www.AuthorJacques.com