Crawling into bed with Christopher Stone,
speaking for his Going and Coming
character, Randal Pierpont Sherman.
Important
things first, are these sheets silk or cotton?
I’m in-between unpolished Egyptian
cotton sheets with a one thousand-thread count. I love the look and feel of
silk, but they’re more slippery than hell. At first, I bought silk sheets. But
after sliding out of bed three times, and falling to the floor with a thud, I
had them cleaned, and then I donated them to Out of the Closet. Let someone
else bruise his bum. These days, I’m a Cotton kind of guy.
What
are you wearing?
My Birthday suit, but I did
leave the radio on. At twenty-five,
and with a beautiful, leanly muscled physique, I never miss an opportunity to
shed my clothes. Why gild this golden lily of a body? Maybe I’ve yet to mature,
and I’m no mental giant, but my bod rocks, and I enjoy showing it off whenever
I can. Perhaps you saw my photos in the “Hunks of Hermosa” calendar? I was Mr. February,
and in that calendar, February was the hottest month.
What are we snacking on in bed
while we read tonight?
With your permission, I’d like
to eat you.
You see, I’ve had a boner since
yesterday – ever since my failed seduction of my boss, Dr. Minnow Saint James.
He’s fifteen
years my senior, but the guy’s a total Babe.
He’d
asked me to drop new patient files at his house while he was away. I did as he
instructed, but instead of leaving afterward, I went into the back yard,
stripped nude, and reclined on a patio chaise, soaking up the sun, and awaiting
the boss man’s return home. I mean, finding me nude, right there on his patio
chaise, how could he resist?
But resist,
he did, and my planned seduction morphed into a debacle. After returning home, Dr.
Saint James, or Minn, as he is more casually known, discovered nude me on the
chaise, got all huffy, and insisted that I dress. Instead of grabbing my
clothes, I simply got off the chaise,
and with my semi-erection swinging in the warm breeze; I casually walked up to
him.
Well
the boss is so discombobulated by my nudity and tumescence that he bolts
backward, slamming hard up against the sliders that lead from the house onto
the patio.
He’s
fuming mad, or at least he pretends to be. And I suspect his butt is pretty
sore, too. Still he can’t take his eyes off my junk. Again he insists that I
dress. Minn has this awful thing about not fucking those with whom he works. He
hasn’t even come out to me as gay, but I happen to know he’s a card-carrying
Friend of Dorothy.
Any
who, I dress slow as molasses, because I know he’s enjoying the skin show; no
matter how much he protests, I know he wants me. I mean, who wouldn’t want a
piece of this?
At
his request, I skedaddle, but I’m horny as hell.
Minn
thinks that’s the end of that, but, one way or the other, I’m going to get that
man, sooner or later, if it’s the last thing I do.
So,
if you’ll be so kind as to crawl between the sheets with me, and then spread
your big, beautiful butt checks, I’ll snack on you. Then you’re welcome to a
heaping helping of me.
If I open this nightstand, what will I
find?
Straight
away, you’ll see the Pjur Analyse Me Relaxing Anal Glide. But then you’ll
notice a lined notebook and pencils. Whenever I awaken after a dream, I write
down everything I remember about the dream, before returning to sleep. I’ve
done this for years, even when I’m sharing my California King with some wicked
awesome dude.
And
then you’ll find a copy of Dr. Saint James’s bestselling book, In a Past Life, I…. It’s the book that
prompted me to apply for the job as Minn’s Man Friday. I can never get enough
of the boss’s compelling book. Every time I read it, I see something important
that I missed before. Great books can be that way.
Do you roll up the blankets like a burrito,
or kick the covers off during the night?
Neither.
I tend to gently pull the covers up to my neck. When I’m lucky enough to have a
bed companion, I cuddle up to the guy, my right leg slung over his torso. I
love being pressed up against someone as I sleep.
Can I put my cold feet on your calves to
warm them up?
Any
old time. And while you’re at it, how about pressing your manhood against my
ass. I’ll keep that warm, too. Really
is there anything cozier that warming a hot guy’s penis between one’s
granite-hard butt cheeks?
What are we reading?
Going and Coming: The Minnow Saint James
Metaphysical Adventures: Book One, by Christopher Stone. This hot new novel
folds metaphysical themes into an entertaining pop fiction. Not only is it a
hot, humorous read, but it is also enlightening, with food for thought. Who
could ask for anything more?
Author Name: Christopher Stone
Book Name: Going and Coming
Series: The Minnow Saint James
Metaphysical Adventures
Book: One
Release
Date: January 22, 2016
Blurb:
At forty, Dr. Minnow Saint James, “Minn” to his
friends, is a gay, metaphysical sleuth who, through Past Life Regression
therapy, spans time, space, dimensions, and the entirety of God’s Creation, to
discover the past, or future, life origins of his patient’s most challenging
present day problems.
But Minn is also a bestselling nonfiction author. His
book, In a Past Life, I…. is an international publishing sensation.
Going
and Coming is the story of how Dr. Minnow Saint James became the person he
is today.
In
chapters that alternate between 2007-2008, and 2015-2016, we learn exactly how
“Minn” transitioned from an atheist who is a slave to his five physical senses,
into a professional metaphysician with a true belief in the Divine Mind we call
God.
Readers may find themselves mesmerized as Dr. Saint James hypnotically
regresses Ramona Burford, a student volunteer at the UCLA’s Parapsychology Lab,
to a past life where, she describes everything that happens from a person’s
physical death in one life, until they are reincarnated in a new body. Many
readers will be surprised to learn that Pearly Gates, Judgment, Heaven and
Hell, have nothing to do with what really happens.
In
addition to reincarnation and the eternal nature of the personality, readers,
along with “Minn,” explore metaphysical concepts including Simultaneous Time,
and the erroneous physical beliefs in sickness, sin, and death.
Along
the way, Going and Coming may just shatter your strongest beliefs about
the very nature of reality.
Pages or Words: 80,000 words
Categories: Contemporary, Gay Fiction,
Mystery, Paranormal, Thriller, Humor, Metaphysical
Excerpt:
Who
am I?
My name is Dr. Minnow
Saint James. My family and friends call me Minn. To everyone else, I am Dr.
Saint James.
I was born and raised in Beverly Hills, California,
amid swimming pools, movie stars, and private schools. My parents are Sheila
and Russell Saint James. Father owns and operates Saint James Cadillac, six
highly successful Cadillac dealerships in the San Fernando Valley. Mother,
known simply as She to one and all, is Lady Bountiful to Beverly Hills at
large, conceiving and coordinating many of its most prestigious charity events.
Want someone to coax an antisocial celebrity into
hosting a Republican fundraiser? Mother is your go-to gal.
A
youthful forty, I now live and work in Hermosa Beach, California, one of Los
Angeles County’s loveliest South Bay beach cities.
Minnow, now there’s a moniker you don’t hear every
day. That is, unless you happen to be me. Jokes about my first name haunted my
school years. But these days, when people speak of Dr. Minnow Saint James,
there’s no mention of his quirky first name. They talk about my professional
achievements: You see, nowadays, I have a wildly successful practice as
America’s leading Past Life Regression therapist, and I’m also the founder of
the Institute for Mental Health Through Past Life Regression Therapy, -now an
international organization - with my friend and former professor, Dr. Adrian
Finkelstein, as the Institute’s CEO.
But what
exactly is a Past Life Regression therapist? I am in the business of
going and coming – that is, going into my patients’ past, and sometimes future,
lives through hypnotic regression, and coming back with the other life origins
of their present life challenges.
My work is cutting edge and evolutionary. Let me put
it this way: medical marvels such as artificial limbs, Titanium plates and
other metal joints, and pacemakers, have already transformed humans from
biological organisms into creatures that are biological and technological hybrids.
Similarly the science of psychology, will soon come to
understand the necessity of treating the individual’s entire mental gestalt -
including what we think of as past, and even future, lives - in order for the
person to achieve mental health.
In my practice, I’ve been treating that entire gestalt
for the past seven years. I’m the future of good mental health; science’s
better way and brighter tomorrow. But to Psychology Today, and to most
of the mental health community, the jury is still out on past life regression
therapy, and so they claim my work is not science based.
Nonetheless my success rate, in excess of eighty-five
percent, not only speaks for itself; it is the envy of the “scientifically
sound” therapies. My services are sought out by people from all walks of life,
and from all over the world. My private practice has a six-month waiting list.
Quite simply, while Mother is the go-to woman for
Charitable Beverly Hills, I’m the guy ya gonna call when you believe the
challenges of your current life may be rooted in a past, or future, one. Often
my therapy represents the last, best hope of patients who have tried and failed
to achieve mental health through traditional treatments.
The profession has many perks. For one, it
is much easier dealing with other people’s issues than with your own. I have a
good excuse, if not a good reason, for leaving my own challenges and
shortcomings unexamined.
That is how I’m able to avoid pesky
questions. Questions such as: Why, at forty-years-old, am I without a spouse, a
boyfriend, or even the steady hook-up? I like to think the lack of romance in
my life, and the absence of booty in my bed, are products of the
spiritualization of my thought, gained in the eight years since my personal
transformations. That is what I like to think. The truth may vary.
Buy the book:
Meet the author:
Born in Bronx, New York, and raised in Fresno,
California, Christopher Stone’s early years were dominated by school, watching
television and motion pictures, bicycling, skating, and reading avidly. Summers
were spent swimming, and doing whatever it took to survive the oppressive San
Joaquin Valley heat. But he also remembers fondly the yearly summer trips to
New York, to visit family and friends – and to see Broadway shows.
Christopher left Fresno, for Hollywood, California,
during his college years after being accepted into the Writers Guild of
America’s Open Door Program, a two-year, scholarship, training ground for
aspiring screen and television writers. As it happened, rather than a teleplay
or screenwriting gig, his first professional writing job was in journalism – as
the Los Angeles Editor for Stage Door, at that time, Canada’s equivalent of the
U.S. entertainment trade weekly, Variety.
Christopher would later use his Writers Guild of
America training to co-author and sell the original screenplay, The Living
Legend, with Jon Mercedes III, to the Erin Organization, and later, and also
with Mercedes, to write two seasons of The Party Game, a Canadian TV game show.
As a young freelance entertainment journalist, he
contributed to many Los Angeles-based publications, among them The Advocate,
for which he wrote a breezy film column, “Reeling ‘Round,” and the Los Angeles
Free Press. During this time, he became a member of the Los Angeles Drama
Critics Circle.
Christopher dipped his toes into the world of motion
picture advertising and publicity, as assistant to the West Coast Director of
Advertising and Publicity for Cinerama Releasing Corporation, in Beverly Hills.
At the same time, he also did special advertising and publicity projects for
20th Century-Fox. Christopher went on to become an Account Executive for David
Wallace & Company, a public relations firm specializing in entertainment
accounts – and located on West Hollywood’s legendary Sunset Strip.
Returning to his first love, writing, Christopher
became a full time freelance contributor to national consumer publications
including Us, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, McCall’s, In Cinema, and The
National Enquirer, among others. Many of his stories were syndicated worldwide
by the New York Times Syndication Corp.
Another important area of endeavor for Christopher
Stone was Re-Creating Your Self. A Blueprint for Personal Change that he first
developed for himself, the journalist went on to teach the principles and
processes of Re-Creating Your Self to others – first, in private sessions,
later, in workshops and seminars, and, finally, for California State University
Extended Education. Eventually, one of his students suggested he write a book
version.
Re-Creating Your Self was first published in hardcover
by Metamorphous Press, and subsequently published in a trade paperback edition
by Hay House. It has since been published in Spanish, Swedish and Hebrew
language editions.
When not writing, Christopher used his longtime
interest in, and study of, metaphysics, to teach meditation and psychic
development classes – first in Beverly Hills, then later, in Manhattan Beach.
He went on to co-author, with Mary Sheldon, four
novellas for a Japanese educational publisher, and then, also with Mary
Sheldon, the highly successful The Meditation Journal trilogy of hardcover
books. Subsequently, he returned to journalism, this time, contributing
hundreds of print and online entertainment features, columns and reviews to
magazines and websites. For eight years, Christopher was the Box-office
Columnist for MatchFlick.com, a popular
online motion picture site.
In his private life, Christopher Stone met David M.
Stoebner on May 17, 1994, and they have been together ever since.
In 2008, they were
married in Los Angeles.
They share a home with their three pets in Coastal Los
Angeles County.
In 2013, Christopher’s pet project has been
transforming their rarely used kitchen table area into a killer, retro 1950s
Diner Nook, complete with a 1952 Seeburg Table Top jukebox, a neon diner sign,
and a malt machine.
Christopher’s first novel, Frame of Reference was e
and print published, in fall 2012, by MLR Press. A short story, Sweet Homo
Alabama was published by MLR Press, December 19, 2012.
Stone spent much of 2013 writing Frame of Reference 2:
The Dark Side of Stardom, a sequel novel to Frame of Reference, as well as,
Abracadabra, and a short story, published at Halloween. But the indefatigable
scribe also found time to contribute weekly reviews, columns and interviews to
Queer Town Abbey.
On December 11, 2015, Christopher will introduce
readers to the Past Life Regression therapist, Dr. Minnow Saint James, the
subject of his new series, The Minnow Saint James Metaphysical Adventures, in
the Christmas short story, Shaking the Holiday Blues Away, MLR Press. Going
and Coming: The Minnow Saint James Metaphysical Adventures, Book 1, will be
released by MLR Press, January 22, 2016.
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Publisher: MLR Press
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