Tom Helleberg

Tom Helleberg (1978 - ) is a white, white male living in Brooklyn NY. He is a writer and outspoken leader of the homosexual / plushie community, and does most of his writing under the pseudonym Harris Elleberg.

Early Years
Tom was born in some other place at some earlier time. He attended school where he played the bully in odd-numbered grades and the lunch-money-surrendering chump in even-numbered grades. He attributes his ability to write authentic dialogue, and also his limp, to this early self-enforced refusal to be categorized according to playground sterotypes, or rather his willingness to be completely categorized by those stereotypes, but only for a limited period of time.

Tom was given his first side knife at age 2, and carried it with him in his diaper. The knife was either a gift from his maternal grandfater, Herbert 'Bud' Wilson, retired one-star general in the US Army or something he picked up surreptitiously at one of the many cockfights he attended with his family. Tom nicknamed the knife 'na', which is pretty clever for a 2-year-old, and used it to defer by fear of force his toilet training.

Tom Goes to College
Tom first attended college, accidentally, while visiting Lehigh in Pennsylvania to protest immigrant-farmed grapes in campus dining halls. He was 13 years old and recieved a bachelor's degree in ham radio operation.

Subsequently, Tom attended Real College at New York University, where he met Michael Quinn.