"EXHIBITIONIST AT THE PICTURE SHOW" & "TONGUE": POST-RELEASE THOUGHTS

As of this time, for those of you who have taken the time to read the stories "Exhibitionist At The Picture Show," "Tongue" and "Fourteen" from last month, you have now officially read about half of the entire Tales From Memorial Union novel...and I sincerely thank you.

I thank you for taking this journey with me as I open myself up in ways that I just have not been brave enough to attempt before this time. I thank you for every kind word you have said to me about the stories and furthermore, just for taking any time out of your busy lives to spend inside of mine.

As I have expressed to you in the past, these three released stories have been the only ones to have been completed and therefore, fully ready to be released to you. Where "Exhibitionist At The Picture Show" and "Fourteen" felt to be very natural to write and hopefully for you to read, "Tongue" still perplexes me and I was truly expecting you to not care for that one at all. But, even though I hadn't heard any specific words about the story from any readers, some of you have expressed to me that you are just happy to be reading it at all, which I will assume to mean that even a story this odd to me had some value.

The greatest value from this experience is that I have been re-inspired and have begun forging ahead with the remainder of the novel. My plan is to present the story "Paul Westerberg" next, even thought that one is still being written inside of my Moleskine and it is also being typed up. I will expand upon that story even further next month but I do want to try and type up more of it so I can at least have something considerable to share when I release it.

But until then, I never thought that this day would actually arrive when I would share something this personal and creative with you. Thank you so much for being here for me.