Remember pay phones? Kids used them to call their parents when they’d gotten in over their head and needed to be rescued.
Sadly, my parents were the problem, since I knew I was gay and they were inching closer to having me talk to someone at the church about their suspicions over it.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-cover-how-i-was-tagged-for-a-gay-romance-c7b87f4ef996?sk=d67f1610eb7a968c63c1b373c3797595

#LGBTQ #Gay #Fiction #Romance #QueerFiction

My Cover: How I was Tagged for a Gay Romance

I was sixteen with just enough money to get to Miami by bus

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I finished Camp Damascus, which was excellent, & have gone ahead & pre-ordered Chuck Tingle's newest novel Fabulous Bodies, which comes out in July. I am informed that it is massively important to support authors you enjoy by pre-ordering the books they publish through traditional publishers.

I fucking love Chuck. Triumphantly queer horror fiction with autistic protagonists? Yes, please!

#ChuckTingle #QueerFiction #CampDamascus

Here, back in the school yard under the orange glow of street lamps and the residual white of soccer floodlights, we put the finishing touches on Alex’s costume. Clipping a plastic “bling necklace” around her neck while she’s dressed as a ghost is peak Alex.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/jae-and-alex-living-lgbtq-in-a-dead-end-town-unhinged-melody-f2e9accb4caf?sk=43f3063ec7b1080f803785ef4dfddea9

#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction

Jae and Alex: Living LGBTQ in a Dead End Town — Unhinged Melody

Dead End Town (IV)

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Our ghost costumes suddenly feel a bit… inappropriate. Not for the world, I don’t care about that — I want to talk to Jae without being surreal.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/jae-and-alex-living-lgbtq-in-a-dead-end-town-ghosts-on-the-run-7fb29aec5fb9?sk=4243eaddeb338a8fadecddf2da91e9a1

#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction

Jae and Alex: Living LGBTQ in a Dead End Town — Ghosts on the Run

Dead End Town (III)

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University of Edinburgh Writer in Residence with Val McDermid
2 April, University of Edinburgh. Free, ticketed

What does it take to build and sustain a life & career in writing over almost forty years? This event marks the re-issue of Val’s earliest crime series – the Lindsay Gordon novels – first published in the 1980s, & seminal in what has become known as the ‘queering of the genre’

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/university-of-edinburgh-writer-in-residence-with-val-mcdermid-tickets-1984396694933

#Scottish #literature #crimefiction #queer #queerfiction

University of Edinburgh Writer in Residence with Val McDermid

A special event with international, best-selling author Val McDermid to mark the reissue of her very first crime series, forty years on.

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This book was really hard to write, not because the story is complicated (though it is) but because it's so heart-wrenching. And so very relevant to our times. Follow Aria as she navigates the hard times at the end of Minoan civilization, and ponder how we might make better choices today. Book details, including CWs, here:

https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/the-last-priestess-of-malia

#books #bookstodon #HistoricalFiction #QueerFiction #Minoan

Jae and I find ourselves in front of a formidable pointy barrier that seems more befitting for a prison. Times sure have changed. I mean, I certainly have since I went here. My school uniform wouldn’t fit these days. In the most important of ways, it never really did.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/jae-and-alex-living-lgbtq-in-a-dead-end-town-ghouls-out-forever-46f9d1201af4?sk=67918f851562738f8a88be7a8b11c4b8

#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction

Jae and Alex: Living LGBTQ in a Dead End Town. Ghouls Out… Forever!

Dead End Town (II)

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https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-drawn-world

A twenty-one-year-old kid from rural nowhere teaching a mountain of a man from deep Georgia how to read Japanese comics in a queer bar basement. That's the whole story. That's the whole revolution. Scissors and tape on a bedroom wall, updated for a generation that draws its own mirrors. #QueerFiction #LGBTQ #MangaCulture #ChosenFamily #QueerArt #TransLiterature

The Drawn World

The Safety of a Queer Space

Wendy The Druid

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I cut down to size some of the loose material that would drag on the floor, put the scissors back, and pick up my house keys instead. Jae is already walking down the path, a backpack with cider deforming their ghostly apparition.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/jae-and-alex-living-lgbtq-in-a-dead-end-town-riding-the-ghoulbus-d914573e7a9b?sk=8157bce96a108c2317f0110aeae94c99

#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #Humor #MentalHealth

Jae and Alex: Living LGBTQ in a Dead End Town — Riding the Ghoulbus

Dead End Town (I)

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