I believe that in our hearts we must always keep love alive for all who suffer, particularly those we love whose lives are so horribly affected by the disease of drugs and alcohol. While I know there are genetics involved, I also wonder what we can do to provide these kids alternatives. With my son, not only did he inheret the tendency from his dad and my dad, we found out this year (he's 19) that he had been molested by a neighbor when he was about 5. We'd always suspected it, but this was the first time we got confirmation.

Jesse is so very bright and was bored out of his mind in school. Because he was different, he was picked on in elementary school. Because he had been molested and the issue never resolved, he often exhibited inappropriate behavior. We took him to many therapists, put him in many programs, trying to help. But at the same time my ex- and I were fighting all the time and my ex- was still drinking. Very mixed messages indeed!

I hope that all of you who have loved ones involved with drugs have gotten support for yourselves -- either through Al-Anon or some other support program. It's the only way I have managed to struggle through the gray murk and pain to a light where I can fully love and support Jesse as appropriate, yet not lose myself in the process.

Norma and Number5 and anyone else in this situation, God bless you for your love for your childen and grandchildren. And strength to continue on this path that we have been given.

Brokeback Mountain Goes to Camelot!
If you liked BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, you'll love MORDRED AND THE KING, which has just been added to www.tantalizingtales.com. Here's what it's about:

CORAL SPRINGS, Florida – May 5, 2006 – With MORDRED AND THE KING, ebooks publisher TantalizingTales.com releases the first epic gay fantasy published since THE ILIAD.

“It’s Brokeback Mountain goes to King Arthur’s Court,” says TantalizingTales publisher Charlene Keel. “With this lyrical, haunting tale, John Michael Curlovich proves once again he is a gifted storyteller. He has taken Mordred, the traditional villain in Arthurian legend, and reconstructed him into an intriguing and sympathetic hero.”

Curlovich, who also writes as Michael Paine, is the author of the bestselling gay novels THE BLOOD OF KINGS and BLOOD PROPHET, and popular horror novels STEEL GHOSTS and THE NIGHT SCHOOL.

Other TantalizingTales.com books have received critical acclaim from the e-books community since the site launched last year. Keel’s COME SLOWLY EDEN has been favorably compared to CATCHER IN THE RYE and critics have called THE LODESTONE by Kathryn Fairfax a “compelling story with characters expertly brought to life.”

TantalizingTales.com (now based in Coral Springs, FL) has also just released SEVENTH DAWN OF DESTINY (also by Kathryn Fairfax, based on events in the life of Paul R. Wineman), about an American who is coerced by the CIA into an assassination plot in Iran during the fall of the Shah.

Mordred And The King (ISBN 0-9785513-1-1)
Seventh Dawn Of Destiny (ISBN 0-9785513-0-3)

To interview the authors, get review copies or for more information:
Contact – Charlene Keel
ckeel@tantalizingtales.com
www.tantalizingtales.com
PH: 954-934-3104