situation. He tries to move on, find new work, tries to keep things good with his boyfriend despite suddenly not being able to quite stomach the mild kink of their sex life. The hate-crime is lodged in his chest. He passes it on, and then has to live with it. I feel like We All Got It Coming is the stronger piece. There's a clearer throughline, Arthur feels like a fully fleshed-out character rather than an angry archetypal representation, but I really enjoy the way the two stories play off each other, that you can draw connections between them if you feel like it. Both focus on characters unable to deal with their anger, sick with it, the way it alters their reactions. The Complete Lockpick Pornography is an oddly quiet book, for all the wit and violence and playful sex -- it unnerves through character, it unnerves by refusing to pin anything down -- even the unnamed narrator's stand-by, Gender is a Social Construct, is both true and false, none of the characters quite agreeing with each other about it, the statement becoming little more than an empty words that don't reflect the complexity of their situations. (The Lockpick Pornography was originally serialized online and then published by Loose Teeth Press in 2005. The Complete Lockpick Pornography was published by ECW Press in 2012. )