What Becomes A Gentile’s Dream

Kevin Barnes

I’ve never told anyone this story before because it is a little embarrassing. Plus legally I’m not really supposed to talk about it but…here we go.

I had my first sexual experience when I was

I did not raise my glass in toast to the passing of Gene Hackman.

There is inherent loneliness in the mountains.

Catholic guilt burned a hole in my palm and hidden in a bag, inside another bag, I lowered it into a dumpster like burying evidence of dead nuns.

September 15, 2025 | Fiction

I felt his absence slowly growing and absorbing me like a black hole.

September 14, 2025 | Nonfiction

The freedom is almost overwhelming.

September 12, 2025 | Nonfiction

You were compiling something and the itch for alcohol had blocked all business until you’d gotten up, checked the stove, and left.

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks!

“Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box full of youthful despair and dark delight.”

—Cheryl Strayed, author of WILD