About

From the mind of FV Everleigh…

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PUBLISHED WORK

“The Courtesan Parables“ [ SAMPLE ] [Published by Black Lotus Books, early 2021]

WORKS IN PROGRESS

• LITERARY HISTORICAL FICTION
  • “Butterflies in a Gilded Cage” [ READ @ COVERFLY ] [ SAMPLE ]
    • 1903: The introspective Black piano player at Chicago’s most opulent brothel, a harlot on the run from her murderous past, and the city’s most scandal-ridden all-too-eligible bachelor face lethal underworld machinations and the societal demands of race, sexuality and class to unapologetically navigate their own treacherous love triangle.
• SCREENPLAY/TELEPLAY
  • “Sunset ’81” – Hour Dark Drama [ READ @ COVERFLY ] [ SAMPLE ]
    • 1981: hair-metal rules the Sunset Strip. Everyone is living fast until Joan D’Ark dies young in a crash & her remains vanish. An eye witness saw a glamorous woman kiss the corpse before fleeing the scene. While cops investigate, Joan returns–ALIVE! But with a few blind spots.
  • “The House of Lilies” – Hour Dark Dramedy [ SAMPLE ]
    • When a New Orleans party-girl goes missing on their first date, Julia – the globe-trotting curator for the Vatican’s top-secret Erotic Archives – becomes embroiled in a centuries old war between a magical bordello of immortal courtesans and the fraternal order sworn to destroy them.
  • “The Grind” – Half Hour Character Driven Comedy
    • A colorful troupe of burlesque dancers, drag queens and circus acts have lost their frame of reference as to what is inappropriate outside of their hipster strip club where nudity and expletives fly and there is obviously no HR department.
• COCKTAIL BOOKS
  • “Courtesan Cocktails and Other Libertine Libations” [ SAMPLE ]
  • “Nothing But a Good Time – The 80’s Hair Metal Cocktail Book”
• SPIRITUALITY/CREATIVITY
  • “52 Days of Beauty” [ SAMPLE ]
  • “Paphia’s Vision: A Guide to the Cyprian Revelation Deck”
  • “Into the Diamond Gate – a Practical Introduction to Cyprianism” [ SAMPLE ]
• VISUAL ART
  • The Cyprian Revelation Deck – prompts for the practice of creativity and worship of Beauty [ SAMPLE ]
  • “Deadly – an exploration of the Seven Deadly Sins” – Director/Cinematographer

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PAST WORK

• The Seed – Being a Poetic Exploration of the Philosophy and Beliefs of the Knights of Paphos
  • Standard Edition
  • Collector’s Edition
• “Bump and Grind” – Burlesque Poetry
  • “How Chicago Was Made”
  • “the hypnotist”
  • “division street”
• Essays on Art
  • “The Cyprian Call to Arms”
  • “Cyprianism”
• Various poems and short stories
  • “without edges”
  • “Vapor All the Same”
  • “i like you close as skin”
  • “Lament”
  • “five minutes a hundred years ago”
  • “Bruised”
  • “I swear I smell, or sense, the sweat”
  • “She”

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LECTURES – EVENTS – CLASSES

• On November 11, 2019, I was fortunate enough to spend the evening with Brook MacBeth in a discussion about one of my favorite pieces ever, Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” from 1978. This essay is basically scripture to me. Please enjoy the discussion and feel free to comment. Also, click HERE for my discussion notes.