TRUE LETTERS FROM A FICTIONAL LIFE

A thoughtful, authentic coming-out story about a high school boy who can only deal with his own truth through secret, unsent letters.

If you asked anyone in his small Vermont town, they would tell you the facts: James Liddell, star athlete, decent student, and sort-of boyfriend to cute, peppy Theresa is a happy, funny, carefree guy.

But whenever James sits down at his desk to write, he tells a different story. As he fills his drawers with letters to the people in his world – letters he never intends to send – he spills the truth: he is trying hard, but he just is not into Theresa. It is his friend, a boy, who lingers in his thoughts.

James’s secret letters are his safe space – until someone leaks them, and words he never meant to share are being broadcast all over school. Will he come clean to his parents, his teammates, and himself, or is he destined to live a life of fiction?

Kenneth Logan grew up in Freehold, New Jersey and taught high school English in Vermont and San Francisco. Currently, he is a PhD student in literacy education at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn.