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    Inheritance: Unzipped, #4
    Inheritance: Unzipped, #4
    Inheritance: Unzipped, #4
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    Inheritance: Unzipped, #4

    By David Gerson and Stephen McMaster

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    In Issue 4 of Unzipped, David Gerson and Stephen McMaster explore the vulnerability of becoming men; in particular, of living openly as gay men in the south. These two collections introduce you to the awkward innocence of first love, the awkward cruelty of last loves, the beauty of love between friends, and complicated familial relationships. Turning these pages could bring you tears of laughter or tears of sorrow, but it won't leave you bored for a moment.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLife in 10 Minutes Press
    Release dateSep 15, 2021
    ISBN9781949246148
    Inheritance: Unzipped, #4

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      Inheritance - David Gerson

      Inheritance

      Inheritance

      David Gerson

      Stephen McMaster

      Life in 10 Minutes Press

      Copyright ©2021 by Life in 10 Minutes Press.

      Cover images courtesy of the Gerson and McMaster families.

      Cover design by Llewellyn Hensley & Content–Aware Graphic Design.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      First published in 2021 by

      Life in 10 Minutes Press

      Richmond, VA

      lifein10minutes.com/press

      Distributed by IngramSpark

      & Life in 10 Minutes Press

      ISBN 978–1–949246–14–8

      E-book printed in the United States of America

      First Printing, 2021

      Contents

      About Life in 10 Minutes

      Welcome to Unzipped

      Stay tuned for Issue 5: Valley Haggard’s Memoir

      Lost and Found

      About David Gerson

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1. Me and the Lioness

      2. The First Mark Who Ever Loved Me

      3. Granny’s Eyes

      4. A Love Letter to Sara and NYC

      5. The First Time Rodgers and Hammerstein Wrecked Me

      6. The Cut

      7. The Ghost

      8. The Bear

      9. Found

      10. Paris

      11. Untitled AIDS Piece

      12. My Hair

      13. The In-Between Time

      14. Linked In

      15. Ted

      16. On What it Means to be Jewish

      17. Before and After

      18. 4.20.21: Verdict in Minneapolis / The World Only Spins Forward

      Philia

      About Stephen McMaster

      Introduction

      19. Baby

      20. I, Stephen

      21. Airborne

      22. Distraction

      23. Solitary

      24. Dads and Sons

      25. Filling the Gap

      26. J. Sells

      27. Beloved Inheritance

      28. Four Years Out

      29. Birthday

      30. Foundations

      31. Happy Holidays

      32. Mam’zelle Champagne

      33. Prometheus

      34. 60s

      35. Professional Virgin

      36. David Sedaris

      37. Dinosaur Exhibit

      38. Oh

      39. Bread and Water

      40. Samhain

      41. Macy’s Parade

      42. Sticky Note

      43. Hysterical Tendencies

      44. Back Fun

      45. The Funhouse of My Mind

      46. Ex

      47. OCD

      48. Knowledge is Power

      49. Low Tide

      50. Japonism

      51. Salt

      52. Forbidden Fruit

      53. 1970s NYC

      54. A Perfect 10

      55. John & Norman’s

      56. Vigilance

      57. Happy Pill

      58. Philia

      59. Garden of the Soul

      60. The Wasp

      Colophon

      Thank You for Supporting Unzipped

      About Life in 10 Minutes

      Life in 10 Minutes is a community of writers sharing stories that are brave and true through classes, workshops, retreats, Zoom, and our online lit mag. Visit lifein10minutes.com to read deep, strange, hilarious, heartbreaking, and powerful stories written 10 minutes at a time, and share yours, too!

      Homegrown in Richmond, Virginia, Life in 10 Minutes Press began with the mission to give passage to books we believe in. We seek to bring readers titles that are brave, beautiful, raw, heartfelt, and vital, and to nurture authors in their publishing journeys.

      Learn more at lifein10minutes.com/press.

      Our mission: We are especially passionate about memoir by women and under-represented voices, nonfiction that challenges the status quo, and boundary-breaking books of all genres. All works published with Life in 10 Minutes Press are carefully chosen to support our mission and reflect our commitment to promoting fresh, engaging, high-quality storytelling.

      Welcome to Unzipped

      We are thrilled to introduce Issue 4, Inheritance by David Gerson and Stephen McMaster.

      Lost and Found by David Gerson reveals the vulnerability and inner strength that it takes to grow up gay and Jewish in the South. His discoveries about his supposed lioness mother who failed to protect him and his siblings, his bear of a father who remained always in the shadows, and other memorable characters that appear in his life story represent both marked loss and discovery. Gerson explores the multitude of losses and discoveries one makes traversing the complicated landscapes of friendship, sexuality, marriage and divorce, heritage and religion. He culminates his journey in the discovery that no matter the losses, we keep going forward, pushing on, because above all, this is a life and it is enough.

      Philia by Stephen McMaster invites us into the tumultuous life of a gay Southern man, adopted as a baby from an orphanage in Ireland. Armed with quivers of useless knowledge he survives bullies, abuse, and the messy and often desperate experience of growing up within his own family by reading multiple sets of encyclopedias, and becoming the family Distractor in Chief. McMaster’s transformation from an alcoholic to a sober man in recovery who even finds himself practicing affirmations with a paid listener. As he helps other men in the program, he learns about the power of love through fellowship, for others, and finally, for himself.

      With wry, understated humor, McMaster shares with us his family’s Southern drama, ratings of bathrooms around the country, corsets from JCPenney in the 1970s, lurid affairs, and a generous serving of his grandmother’s crabcakes.

      Enjoy!

      Cindy Cunningham and Valley Haggard, Co–Editors

      Stay tuned for Issue 5: Valley Haggard’s Memoir

      Early on in Valley Haggard’s memoir, There’s no Accounting for the Strangeness of Things, Valley writes, my mother always said she knew I’d have to take the world apart before I could put it back together again. We follow Valley into alcoholism and out, into self-hatred and out, and into mistrust of women and out. Her father and mother teach her one very important lesson, however, and that is to love large and loud and she never loses that ability for a minute.

      The book is a celebration of womanhood, a grieving of a father, an account of the strangeness of things, and all the stories of a young woman driven by the siren song of wretched excess. Fortunately the real journey lands in a discovery of what it means to find home, to feel the love of the child-Valley that comes hot and steady, like breath. Once she chooses herself, the rest of the journey, albeit still with its challenges, becomes one of discovery and sober intent, the journey to the Golden Shadow, the completion of one massive round of karma and the beginning of another, a brief and fantastic celebration of life.

      Lost and Found

      David Gerson

      David Gerson, Author photograph

      About David Gerson

      David Gerson is a writer and attorney who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to attending law school, David worked in the theatre industry in New York City where he developed and produced new work by Jenny Schwartz, Nathan Parker and Sarah Overman. As the General Manager of New York Stage and Film, he developed new plays by Richard Greenberg, Eve Ensler and Christopher Shinn, among others.

      Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, he has spent most of his adult life trying to escape his Southern roots. Nevertheless, a man in a bow tie and seersucker suit makes him weak in the knees, he won’t ever turn down a bowl of Mrs. Fearnow’s Brunswick Stew, and y’all is a

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