SOme years shape you. others scar.

Christian Tambor SAGA

1973 is not a love story.

It is the first rupture.
A boy. A bruise. A summer that doesn’t end.

Wagga, Australia. Christian Tambor is thirteen and already knows how to disappear. He knows how to breathe quietly. How to dodge fists. How to read a room before he enters it. But he doesn’t yet know what to do with the ache under his ribs—the one that doesn’t come from being hit.

He meets Mary. She sees too much. Asks what no one else will. Her presence splits his world open just enough to imagine something more than surviving.

But Wagga does not forgive softness. Or boys who notice the wrong things.

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LITERARY FICTION THAT SCARS, HEALS, AND REMEMBERS WHO YOU WERE

R.J. Thornwell

The one who tells the truth, then builds something from it.

R. J. Thornwell writes queer literary fiction rooted in silence, survival, and what comes after.
These aren’t love stories. They’re becoming stories.
Told through bruises. Through books. Through years that take and years that give.

Here, the focus is on the boy who couldn’t speak,
and what happens when he finally does.

These are novels that sit with discomfort, but don’t stay there.
They move through trauma toward quiet resistance.
Toward chosen family.
Toward soft victories that no one claps for, but matter deeply.

There’s no erotica here.
Just memory. Just ache. Just truth that refuses to stay buried.

Behind the name? Still Rowan. Still queer. Still honest.
This is the voice for stories that don’t offer escape…. But offer continuance.