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Kelly
Sinclair
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| Kelly
Sinclair lives in Temple, Texas, but is a transplant from the
South Plains. She has been a reporter, a rock singer-songwriter, and is
currently a librarian. One of her poems appeared in the Texas Observer political
magazine, and her computer-derived prints are featured in art galleries.
Sinclair
has worked with an experimental art-rock ensemble, written country songs
for such Texas acts as the Maines Brothers, and sung backup for funk bands
and bluegrass performers. In her writing, she follows a similar path of
exploring her creative boundaries, writing scripts, plays, and musical
song-cycles. |
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Accidental Rebels |
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It's the
summer of 1989, and in the small Texas town of Tantona, to be openly gay
is to be notorious. But three closeted women are Mandy, a young reporter, is hung up on God and women. Librarian Tina is eager to ditch old personal dramas, and rocker Cat is struggling to get her band off the ground. Unanticipated connections bring the women together... and then there's Sherron, a reckless blonde who becomes the talk of the town. When secrets
come doused in Texas barbecue sauce, all the ingredients are present for
a surprising and spicy mix.
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Lesser
Prophets
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were the despised, the unloved, the fitfully tolerated, the novelty acts,
and in some fortunate places, the embraced and even cherished. In those safe harbors, we celebrated each stage of our growing emancipation even though others of our tribe were faced with hangman's gallows or less deadly alternatives and dared not show their true faces. We passed as "normal" when possible, and we were penalized when we could not pass. We only had freedom when they said we could be free. That was our world. We knew none other. But then God, or Fate, or the Omniscient Divine-or merely happenstance-negated all the rules, and our status was forever changed. This is how
the new world began. We were the Lesser Prophets, and this is our story. |