I started writing for SOL without being very clear what I was trying to do and what I hoped to get out of it. My first story "First Time Again" started out as a 'stroke' fantasy, but as it 'just growed' and got totally out of control, it came to reflect my interests in reality (surprise surprise!).
The 'Uncle Frank' stories started out only semiautobiographically (big word for a young fellah). The universe is accurately portrayed, but the themes that have emerged and are emerging reflect my own learnings and struggles to a disconcerting degree.
