Kelly Dessaint's Blog (3)

"The Murky Realm," a biographical sketch of a tragic union with some creative engineering...



My parents never should have gotten married. But even though my father was gay and my mother was chemically imbalanced, this was the 60s, when single men in their forties did not identify as queer and people with personality disorders were rarely diagnosed, much less treated. And marriage was inexorable. The tragedy, of course, is that five children came out of this…

Piltdownlad #5 is “The Detour Guide”

Piltdownlad is a personal narrative zine. Each issue is centered around an autobiographical story. In this issue it's "The Detour Guide," which continues the story from issue #2: “Women Got Me Drinking.” So there are more…

Contents:

Today I Started Slogging Again - Can truth and fiction coexist in the perzine?

The Nasty Oh-Dear - A true narrative

2012 LA Zine Fest - What and who I…