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Timothy Graves
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First and Fiftieth
and other stories
Martin Foreman

A Little Chat
and other stories

Michael Harth

Merle
Elsa Wallace

A New Man in Old Steine
Graham Robertson

The Physent
and other stories
Michael Harth

The Picnic
and other stories
Michael Harth

Queer Haunts
an anthology of ghost stories

Rid England of This Plague
Rex Batten

A Sense of Loss
and other stories
Martin Foreman

A Short History of Lord Hyaena
Elsa Wallace

Slivers of Silver
poems by gay men and women

Weekend
Martin Foreman
COMING IN 2010
Oysters and Pearls
an anthology of poetry by lesbians and gay men

People Your Mother Warned You About
24 short stories by gay and lesbian authors

The Sensuous Poetess
poems by Rochelle Imbiow Baker

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Cocksuckery
Ian Stewart




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A Little Chat
and other stories
Michael Harth


"There are good things in A Little Chat. [They] tend to feature men who are not particularly attractive, not especially active, but are overly obsessed with rough trade and cottaging. Most have a 'road to Damascus' experience when, for the first time, sex is really thrilling."
Peter Burton, Gay Times, December 2003



"'You can't blame Colin for that, mother,' Melvin interrupted. 'I'm at my physical peak just now: surely you wouldn't want me to waste it?'

His mother pointed out with dignity
'There is such a thing as self-control.'

'But what would I be controlling it for?' Melvin asked."


166 pages; £6.99; 978 1 904585 02 2



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Michael Harth's stories have appeared in various gay publications, as far back as Quorum, one of the earliest gay magazines. He wrote the words and music for Going Gay, a revue produced on the the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and later in London, while his one-act science-fiction musical, Briefer Encounters, was put on with two other one-acters during Gay Pride week in the 1990s. He currently edits and contributes to Lightning Fingers, a symposium on the British composer-pianist Billy Mayerl.

He generally prefers observing people to mixing with them, but socialises readily with four cats.


Also available by Michael Harth from Paradise Press:

The Picnic
and other stories


The Physent
and other stories

and a story in

Queer Haunts