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    Namesakes
    Namesakes
    Namesakes
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    Namesakes

    By Emery C. Walters

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    Seventeen year old Blaine is the odd one out at school, the loser, different. He finds solace in music and befriends the musical director of his church, Frederick. Their friendship blooms and feelings start to develop between them. He remains cautious about sharing his sexuality with his parents, though.

    One night after a fight at home, Blaine storms away only to run into bullies who beat him up so badly, he lands in hospital. In his semi-conscious state, Blaine remembers being a pilot in WWII. He also remembers being a pirate in the 17th Century. Frederick features in these past life memories, too!

    When Blaine's father confirms some of these incidents really occurred, Blaine realizes that maybe the bond between his soul and Frederick's is older than he thought. Can these insights give the couple the strength they need to face coming out to their families?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQueerteen Press
    Release dateJan 10, 2015
    ISBN9781611527094
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    Emery C. Walters

    Emery C. Walters was born Carol Forde, a name he soon knew didn’t fit the boy he was inside. Transition was unknown back then, so he married and then bore and raised four children. When his youngest child, his gay son, left home, Emery told Carol that she had to step aside, and he fully transitioned from female to male in 2001.

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      Namesakes - Emery C. Walters

      Namesakes

      By Emery C. Walters

      Published by Queerteen Press

      Visit queerteen-press.com for more information.

      Copyright 2015 Emery C. Walters

      ISBN 9781611527094

      Cover Design: Written Ink Designs | written-ink.com

      Image(s) used under a Standard Royalty-Free License.

      All rights reserved.

      WARNING: This book is not transferable. It is for your own personal use. If it is sold, shared, or given away, it is an infringement of the copyright of this work and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

      No portion of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts used for the purposes of review.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Published in the United States of America. Queerteen Press is an imprint of JMS Books LLC.

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      Namesakes

      By Emery C. Walters

      My name is Blaine. I’m almost eighteen years old and the Army has been calling me every week, wanting me to just stop down at the recruiting office for a chat. Yeah, right. No thank you. This has been going on about once a week since Christmas. I’m a senior, and I’ll be eighteen this summer; so they want to get me brainwashed good by then. It ain’t gonna work.

      They’ve stopped just short of saying how good I’d look in a uniform with my blond hair and brown eyes. If it were the German Army, I’d fit right in. I have ancestors who fought on both sides of WWII. It’s academic anyhow; no way am I going to go sign up.

      Since last October I’ve been going to one of the local churches to listen to the music. They have the best and biggest organ in town, and two pianos, a full sized harp and a music ministry. One day this guy noticed me and when he finished playing the organ, he came out to where I was and asked me if I played. When I said I could play the piano he asked me if I wanted to play theirs. I sure did, it was a Steinway Grand! He said his name was Frederick Maximillian and that he was now the junior music director, sort of a glorified internship. And he was really cute.

      Going over there as often as I could was the only bright spot in my whole high school career, except for a couple of months in my freshman year when I thought this girl named Sonia and I were going to be a thing. Then one day she told me she was sorry but she really liked girls. I tried to pretend I was horrified, but I couldn’t do it; so I hugged her and said that I understood. A couple times after that we’d hug in the hallway at school if someone had been picking on us and calling us names. It even worked for a while. Maybe it still would be working if she hadn’t been caught in the band room making out with a clarinet player named Lisa.

      School has sucked the entire last four years, and I’m pretty damn sure the Army would be just the same. School has gym and sports and tough guys posturing and beating their chests, and coaches and teachers all explaining how I’m wrong about this and wrong about that. The book says…and we do it this

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