Fiction Pick of the Week: "Saffron Farm"
A young lover grapples with arrangements and quarantine.
A young lover grapples with arrangements and quarantine.
Claire Rudy Foster Split Lip Magazine Nov 2020 15min Permalink
Hustling and sexual identity in Lagos.
Eloghosa Osunde Paris Review Oct 2020 20min Permalink
A queer Black man's chance encounters.
Brandon Taylor them. Jul 2020 25min Permalink
A violinist's intersection of talent, music, and desire.
DeMisty D. Bellinger Barren Magazine Oct 2019 10min Permalink
The life of a troubled childhood friend.
Elliott Turner Barren Magazine Feb 2019 10min Permalink
Illness and identity in a quietly fractured family.
Brandon Taylor The Rumpus Jul 2017 20min Permalink
Dead bodies and small town sexual identity.
Eric Nguyen The Mondegreen Aug 2016 15min Permalink
On the eve of their daughter's wedding, a divorced couple is confused by old feelings despite sexual identities.
Claire Lombardo Little Fiction Oct 2015 15min Permalink
Cultural, sexual, and generational clashes surround an aging New York drag queen.
"Clinton Corset Emporium. No awning, just a piece of cardboard stuck in the window. As Miss Adele entered, a bell tinkled overhead – an actual bell, on a catch wire – and she found herself in a long narrow room – a hallway really – with a counter down the left-hand side and a curtained-off cubicle at the far end, for privacy. Bras and corsets were everywhere, piled on top of each other in anonymous white cardboard boxes, towering up to the ceiling. They seemed to form the very walls of the place. 'Good afternoon,' said Miss Adele, daintily removing her gloves, finger by finger. 'I am looking for a corset.'
Zadie Smith The Telegraph Sep 2014 30min Permalink
A father and daughter face complicated sexual dynamics; NSFW.
"Back home, he is watching Formula One on television and bingeing on my mother’s homemade apricot sorbet. Ayrton Senna is on pole position. I’m going through a L.L. Bean catalog, seated right next to him on the couch, turned sideways toward him, knees to my chest so that when I wriggle my toes, I can almost feel the rough fabric of his pants. His eyes are riveted on the screen. He leans forward to place the empty bowl ice cream bowl on the coffee table. The moment he sinks back into his seat, I jump on his lap knees first, like a puppy on its master, wrap my arms around his neck and kiss him on the mouth. He pushes me away. I lose my balance and fall from the sofa to the floor, bumping my head against the solid wood coffee table. The fake silver spoon trembles inside the empty bowl, a lingering echo mocking my collapse."
Sophie Monatte Pithead Chapel Nov 2013 15min Permalink