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Rated: GC · Book · LGBTQ+ · #2354557

Humorous, honest writing about shame, identity, and the search for belonging.

Floorbound is a raw, darkly funny memoir about shame, identity, and the strange ways we learn to belong. It follows a narrator who grows up feeling out of place in his own skin and in the world around him, carrying secrets he doesn’t yet have language for. Through humor, reflection, and a willingness to sit in uncomfortable truths, the story traces how he unravels old patterns, confronts the weight of silence, and slowly builds a life that feels like his own. It’s a book about survival, self‑discovery, and the quiet courage of finally telling the truth.
February 11, 2026 at 4:15pm
February 11, 2026 at 4:15pm
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When I was a kid, my dad did something unconventional. It wasn’t sexual. It wasn’t inappropriate. But it shaped the entire architecture of my adult identity.

It was the moment where comfort, confusion, and connection collided — and I didn’t have the language to understand it until years later.

Every major decision I made as an adult traces back to that imprint. Including the moment I realized I’d finally gone too far.

'Floorbound' is the story of how a strange childhood quirk became a lifelong compass — one that led me into desire, shame, secrecy, and eventually, a kind of self‑acceptance I never thought possible.

It’s not a trauma memoir. It’s not a coming‑out story. It’s something messier — a reckoning with the quiet moments that shape us, the ones we don’t talk about because they’re too weird, too tender, or too hard to explain.

This blog is the first step in telling that story. And maybe, in finally letting it be seen.

'Floorbound' Arriving Pride Month 2026. Another piece of the story next week.

Updates coming as Pride Month gets closer.


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