Unquestionably, according to various documentation we’ve found, only the most salient of which this office has obtained so far and enclosed for your perusal, Neal Bartram somehow also lived from approximately the fall of 1940 through December 1, 1989, dying around the age of seventy-five [sic].
Whatever really happened to the Missing Person Neal Percival Bartram, given all the evidence herein collected, this office cannot assess a finding of Homicide or Death by Foul Play.
I’m afraid it’s back to you, Wayne—Happy Turkey Day!
Det. Sgt. Anabella Conklin
About the Author
FELICE PICANO’S novels, short stories, poetry, memoirs, and plays have been entertaining readers and playgoers for decades. He is considered a founder of modern gay literature and a noted post-modernist. He has won the Ferro-Grumley Award for best novel and the PEN Syndicated Fiction award for best short story. He was finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award and recently received a Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award. A native of New York, Felice Picano now lives in Los Angeles. More information as well as free stories and essays are available @ www.felicepicano.net.
Acclaim for Felice Picano
“Felice Picano is a premier voice in gay letters.”—Malcolm Boyd, Contemporary Authors
Felice Picano is “…a leading light in the gay literary world…his glints of flashing wit and subtle hints of dark decadence transcend clichés.”—Richard Violette, Library Journal
“Felice Picano is one hell of a writer!”—Stephen King
“Picano’s destiny has been to lead the way for a generation of gay writers.”—Robert L. Pela, The Advocate
“These stories [The New York Years: Stories by Felice Picano] are as well written and immediate as any contemporary gay fiction.”—Regina Marler
“With True Stories, Felice Picano enhances his status as one of the great literary figures in recent gay history and does so with wit, verve and as much panache as we’ve come to expect.” —Jerry Wheeler, Out in Print
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