The black emerald
Subtitle: novellas and stories
By: Jeanne Thornton
Publisher: Instar Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781682199084
Subjects: Short stories
Description: A high schooler finds her drawings corrupted by a haunted stone she inherits from a suicidal underground cartoonist. A video game addict discovers a vast, hidden dimension to colonize in the walls of his girlfriend's apartment. A philosophy student seeks anonymous Craigslist sex with the ubiquitous devil that stalks her. In this short fiction collection from Jeanne Thornton, author of The Dream of Doctor Bantam (a Lambda Literary Award finalist), reality and relationships blur, creating a queer pulp experience with a literary sensibility, a hallucinatory journey into despair... and, possibly, toward hope.
Table of contents: title: I. The black emerald; title: II. Stories. Staying up for days in the Chelsea Hotel; title: Energy arcs and fractal skies; title: Tomato plants; title: Putrefying lemongrass; title: Chairs; title: Satan in love; title: Skeleton; title: III. Myra's seven conversations.