Black Kettle

<p>Picking up where the fragmented narrative of <em>Momentitiousness</em> left off <em>Black Kettle</em> explores the many manifestations of hope and deceit in the human experience. This is a novella collection--sweet sensual sadistic and sullen--where independently complete stories burst forth with playful vigor featuring heroes and antiheroes alike.</p><p>Using the true story of Black Kettle--a peaceful Cheyenne Indian chief who was gruesomely slaughtered in the 1860s--as a metaphorical backdrop the text builds on the ambivalence inherent in hypocrisy. More than blood and guts sex and postapocalyptical musing <em>Black Kettle</em> derives its power from an understanding of both the human mind and the human soul. </p><p>In the novella <em>Black Kettle</em> witness the moments immediately preceding during and after two galactic earth-shattering events. In <em>Trayvon</em> observe young men as they discover the shifting tangents connected by sexuality love and family. Finally in The Nola Trilogy watch carnal pleasure morph into sentimentality heartbreak and eventual rebirth.</p>