— The little white church in El Campo had smooth oak pews and stale green hymnals. It was at that altar where I became a Christian, in those pews where I took my first communion—Welch’s grape juice and oyster crackers. It seemed to be a perfect world, but for my mother, it was something less…
James Dean Jay Byrd
About James Dean Jay Byrd
James Dean Jay Byrd is a writer/performer living in Austin, Texas, with his three rescue cats, Karen Black, Macy Gray, and Bobby McFeral. His recently completed experimental memoir, FUMBLING FOR THE KNOB, is about growing up in the closet in a fundamentalist Christian household, breaking out, and finding his way into the world as a queer artist. His writing has appeared in The Manhattanville Review and The Olivetree Review