Selects Her Own

In Selects Her Own, two young women and an adolescent boy must deal with the sometimes-deadly hostility directed at homosexuals. Interwoven with this particular challenge is one more universal—lovers' struggle to mesh their individual needs and dreams to create a joyful and fulfilling life for both.

from Chapter 1:
I stuff my backpack with essentials, put all my cash into my billfold before cramming it into my jeans pocket, then pull my bill cap over my cropped hair. Mom stands at my door watching, arms folded across her chest, lips tight.

I meet her eyes as I leave the room. "Good bye, Mother. Now you won't have to live with a heathen." She'd called my best friend Boyd an abomination and told me I couldn't quit her church. I wonder how long it will take her to figure out that I'm an abomination, too. With any luck, I'll be gone before she does.

She loses her composure then. "Where did I go wrong, Barbara? I've done everything I could to be a responsible, Christian mother. How could you . . ."

"I'm just bad, Mother; it's not your fault."