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Size: 5.00 x 8.00 in
Pages: 67
Size: 5.00 x 8.00 in
Pages: 67
Seven queer stories about our favourite literary figures. Lord Byron encounters a gorgeous ghost in Verona. An author seeks to share her truths. Feste discusses love and revenge. Oscar Wilde discovers more than he expected in a deep Colorado mine. La Belle Dame sans Merci shares her perspective. An engineer is astonished to find a lost manuscript in an old cellar. While Virginia Woolf contemplates peace during another world war…
Publisher: LIBRAtiger
Genres:
Pairings: F-F, M-F, M-M
Heat Level: 2
Romantic Content: 1
Ending: Click here to reveal
Character Identities: Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Transgender
Word Count: 13700
Languages Available: English
In Fair Verona
Adventures naturally befall Lord Byron while he travels through Europe, but all are deliciously surpassed when he is visited by an apparition in the book-lined parlour of an old palazzo in Verona.
Verity
Much has changed since Verity and her beloved Stella died...
In a Dark House
Couples coalesce in happiness, while the lone ones are cast adrift… Feste is glad to see the back of Sir Andrew, is tempted to follow Antonio, a man of his own nature – but surprises even himself when instead he starts to search for the vengeful Malvolio.
Magic Casements
Oscar Wilde is touring North America lecturing on aesthetics – so why wouldn’t the Poet of Beauty and Truth be much on his mind?
Chooser of the Slain
Lily has a mission, which has been harshly and unjustly characterised.
Misplaced
READ MORESam is an engineer indulging her dreams of archaeology... What buried treasure does she discover while Reading Train Station is being redeveloped?
We Live Without a Future
With their home in London destroyed in the Blitz, Leonard and Virginia Woolf find what peace they can in a village near the Sussex coast. But with German and British planes grinding overhead, and the looming threat of a Nazi invasion, there is never enough peace to be had. There is never enough.
COLLAPSEWe Live Without a Future and other stories collection published by LIBRAtiger on 1 May 2025.
"Misplaced" first published in this volume.
“In Fair Verona” and “In a Dark House” previously published in No Holds Bard, Fiona Pickles (editor), Manifold Press, 2018.
“Verity” previously published in Clarity, Other Worlds Ink, 2022.
“Magic Casements” previously published in Queer Weird West Tales, Julie Bozza (editor), LIBRAtiger, 2022.
“Chooser of the Slain” previously published in Heroines, Volume 2, Sarah Nicholson and Caitlin White (editors), The Neo Perennial Press, 2019.
“We Live Without a Future” previously published in Call to Arms, Heloise Mezen (editor), Manifold Press, 2017.
