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In her debut collection, Izzy Wasserstein pries the lid off fourteen different worlds from an already impressive short fiction career. In these pages, you'll meet ne'er-do-wells and orphans, investigators and revolutionaries, diplomats and doctoral students. Wasserstein has a gift for putting her finger on the meaty parts of grief, the catalysts of change, and the pain points of community. This collection contains fourteen stories, two of which have...

This Unlikely Soil, the sophomore collection from Lambda Literary Award finalist Andrea Routley, is a quintet of linked novellas exploring the failures of kindness and connection among a rural west-coast community of queer women. Funny, incisive and at turns heart-breaking, these stories assert a powerful new voice in contemporary Canadian fiction.

In "Appropriate Behaviour," Freddie, suffering from a brain injury, seeks resolution

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Nuits d'été à la mer, les premières vacances d'adultes et sans les parents. Boîtes, lumières, le jeu de poursuivre et d'être poursuivi. Teo continue à récolter les succès, bien que seules les filles qui ne se laissent pas draguer l'intéressent, comme par hasard.  Et même pour Giacomo, son meilleur ami, Teo reste un mystère, la personne de qui il se sent le plus proche et avec qui il a grandi est aussi la personne fascinante à surveiller...

In this stunning debut from one of Nigeria's most exciting young writers, the stakes of love meet a society in flux. These nine stories of queer male intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness, and love in their depictions of what it means to be gay in contemporary Nigeria. A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn't understand then. A daughter returns home to Lagos after the death...

Todo es una mierda y eres una mala persona es la primera obra de ficción del escritor canadiense Daniel Zomparelli. En esta colección de relatos poco convencionales, interconectados y que incluyen mensajes de texto y publicaciones de Facebook, los gais buscan el amor, roban material de oficina, ligan en Grindr, hornean pasteles, acuden a terapeutas, tienen tríos con fantasmas y temen a la felicidad. Con un humor irónico y un corazón cautivador,...

Noches de verano junto al mar, las primeras vacaciones como adultos y sin padres. Locales, luces, el juego de perseguir y ser perseguido. Teo continúa cosechando éxitos, incluso si está interesado, casualmente, sólo en chicas que no se dejan ligar. Y también para Santiago, su mejor amigo, Teo sigue siendo un misterio, la persona con la que se siente más cercano y con quien creció, pero también la persona a quien supervisar, fascinado a lo...

¿Son compatibles la promiscuidad y el romanticismo? ¿Por qué "ya nos veremos" o "ya te llamaré" han pasado a significar "nunca volveremos a vernos"? ¿Cuántos desengaños amorosos hacen falta para no tropezar de nuevo con la misma piedra? La calma luchada reúne 69 relatos que reflejan los vaivenes sentimentales y personales de un hombre gay en el siglo XXI. Su protagonista es un escritor de éxito que, en su madurez, ha alcanzado algo parecido...

Compassionate. Provocative. Moving. In this new collection, Thomas Westerfield challenges our expectations about the stories that can be told regarding sexuality, race, love, abuse, trauma, art, and intergenerational relationships. We meet, among others, a men's sexual abuse group in rebellion against their earth mother therapist; a ninety-six-year-old gay cult writer who confronts a young queer interviewer; a burnt-out white professor playing dangerous...

The second volume of Denton Welch's complete collected short works English novelist Denton Welch originally trained as a visual artist, and a painterly perspicacity and talent for human observation are evident in his writing. His close attention to detail renders even the most seemingly mundane trivialities memorable and important. Though he died at the young age of thirty-three, Welch was quite prolific, doing most of his writing while bedridden...

A collection of sixteen short stories surrounding queer men of various ages trying to temper their expectations of the world with their lived experience.