1971. Creative writing teachers Max Steele, Doris Betts, and William Blackburn allowed Bryan to audit classes. Having no foundation in the reader’s experience of literature, he judged himself illiterate. His teachers considered his condition advantageous to discovery of a unique literary voice. Dyslexia, long a handicap, was suddenly a catalyst for passion. Bryan became a constant reader. To writing he gave years learning sentence structure trial and error, gaining a feel for the architecture of paragraphs, finally realizing stories of his own. His novel, Bitsy Nickle Might Have AIDS, published in 1991, captures a moment of collision between leftover Southern Victorian morality and the post-modern sexual revolution. The book predates and strangely foretells of the Monica Lewinsky affair. Bitsy Nickle is rife with political satire and black comedy relevant to heterosexual transmission of HIV in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The book was instantly controversial. Bryan was invited to speak at college campuses and private school auditoriums in the Bible Belt. While admonishing young people to protect themselves sexually, he challenged local politicians to set a good example by being publicly tested for AIDS; often elected officials invited him to leave town. Bitsy Nickle Might Have AIDS was optioned for film. Bryan’s second book SHAG, The Legendary Dance of the South', released in 1995, is accurate history recounted as prose poetry, the true story of the first social dance conceived in performance with rock n roll music. Before the twist, before the watusi, the frug, and the swim, in 1943, ten years before Elvis Presley, came the shag dance, a unique, fast-footed, smooth, cool derivation of the jitterbug. The shag became a Southern tradition, today recognized as the official state dance of both North and South Carolina. S Renewed career Bryan began publishing again with journalism for charities, writing a series of newspaper articles and Internet copy to promote Project Amazonas, a group he joined on medical expeditions servicing primitive villages along the Amazon River. He wrote and produced a film to raise funds for a new hospital ship. Back in Myrtle Beach, journalism covering homeless students attending his high school alma mater initiated an outpouring of community support, raising tens-of-thousands of donations in a matter of days. Bryan continued to organize and write for homeless students, helping to found Hope House of Myrtle Beach, a charity that nurtures and provides for the immediate needs of homeless high