In these seven stories, the author explores people’s
shifting views of each other, of the images they project, and of
themselves. Individuals fragment, the
pieces fall into ever-changing patterns like bright confetti in the base of a
kaleidoscope, and our ideas about sexuality color what we see.
Proteus - Dr. Krone puzzles over the real persona of a
student whose dress, body language and opinions change from one class to the
next.
Roomies - Each of three men who share a condo plays to a
different gay stereotype, masking the individual personalities that lie beneath
the façade.
Photographic Memories - A witness at a trial for a gay killing harbors some
doubts that the accused is the man he saw leave with the victim.
Facing the Music - Two lovers are forced by their church to enter a
reconditioning program to cure their homosexuality.
Kevvy - A popular high school student
befriends a gay classmate.
Polygon - A man’s fantasies about watching his wife have sex
with a woman lead to suspicions about her sexual orientation and that of his
best friend.
Since the Reunion - “Spouses and significant others welcome.” How many
will attend? How have they changed over the past 25 years?
The House in Birdgate Alley
City of Lovely Brothers
P'tit Cadeau
The Memoirs of Colonel Gérard Vreilhac
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