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PARADISE PRESS
fine writing by lesbians and gay men |
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IN PRINT The Butterfly's Wing Martin Foreman Cocksuckery Ian Stewart First and Fiftieth and other stories Martin Foreman Goodmans Hotel Alan Keslian A Little Chat and other stories Michael Harth Merle Elsa Wallace Nailing Frank Paul Mann A New Man in Old Steine Graham Robertson The Physent and other stories Michael Harth The Picnic and other stories Michael Harth The Queer Commando Paul Mann Queer Haunts an anthology of ghost stories Rid England of This Plague Rex Batten The Seaman's Mission Paul Mann 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 FORTHCOMING Parable With Foreskin And Redheads Ian Stewart 
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Elsa Wallace "Short and strange, this hypnotic novella is engrossing, wild and curiously beautiful." Gay Times "I cannot remember when I did not know I was different. Even this old part of the palace was richly endowed with sculptures, pictures and tapestries, some of which presented naked figures of women and girls to show me my difference. And then I knew it had always been the case that while Lumika and Aigret undressed freely before me, my clothes were always changed beneath a shift and I was even bathed in this shift. When I once queried the inconvenience of the arrangement Lumika said roughly, 'You know why. Are you like that statue there? No. You are of a different kind that may not be seen.' " A female hyaena can easily be mistaken for a male. Handsome - according to her lights - she enjoys a rich social life. In this brief history, the blood and drug-soaked culture of the fantasy realm of Medjuria is subverted by the manoeuvrings of a gender-bending opportunist. 80 pages; £3.99; 978 0 9525964 2 4 Buy now by credit card... (p&p free) 
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 Elsa Wallace grew up in Central Africa and came to London in 1969 to live with the partner with whom she still shares her life. She works with voluntary organisations concerned with human and animal welfare. Elsa Wallace's short stories have been widely published and broadcast. Lord Hyaena is her first novella. Merle 
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