Scott Christopher Beebe

Our Human Condition Scott Christopher Beebe

As a human race, we all need food, clothing and shelter. These are all things that if worse came to worst, we could provide for ourselves. Of course, in order to have our vessels run smoothly, we need to be in good health, spiritually, mentally and phyiscally. To fine-tune these levels of health in the modern age, we would have to seek out professionals to provide us the medication and advice of better self-care to make ourselves last longer. However, none of these things are truly worthwhile unless we had someone to share it with. And so with this of our human condition being defined as love, it is difficult to argue that this cannot be a completed task unless we find another to share it with. What is the number one way of showing someone else that they are loved? By making love, in whatever fashion that the person needing love desires with hopefully a person of similar tastes. And what are the various labels of sexuality, which is our number one human condition? Heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and asexual. All of these subgroups of our human condition are respresented in Scott Christopher Beebe's fourth book, his third of short stories, all of which enclosed take place hugging the Lake Michigan shoreline along the east side of Brew City. Not only are all sexualities represented by the main characters within the included eighteen stories, but so are all ages from thirteen-year-old Billy's bella tale through the story of Alice, who is in her eighties. And they are all connected by that one thing that burns that makes our insides churn that thing from which we never learn... that thing from which we never turn. OUR HUMAN CONDITION is nothing short of the fantasy-fueled, libido-scorched bevy of sensuality that we all feel through our senseless and defenseless sexuality, no matter who we love, a thing that none of us can help, not that we want to. Nor, should we ever. Because we never...