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NEW in 2012 Gay Life, Straight Work Donald West Prisoner 537 Elizabeth Lister 2011 Titles Behind the Mask Winston Green Cocksuckery e-book Ian Stewart Gazebo Short story journal The Monkey Mirror Elsa Wallace People Your Mother Warned You About Edited by G. Abel-Watters The Queer Businessman Paul Mann Seeking, Finding, Losing John Dixon IN PRINT First and Fiftieth and other stories Martin Foreman Homo Jihad Timothy Graves The Last Cargo Ship Paul Mann A Little Chat and other stories Michael Harth Merle Elsa Wallace Nailing Frank Paul Mann A New Man in Old Steine Graham Robertson Oysters and Pearls poetry anthology 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 Stowaway Paul Mann Weekend Martin Foreman FORTHCOMING Bokassa's Last Apostle Rod Shelton Guru on Hire Michael Harth Supporting advertisers helps to provide an income for this website. Note that clicking on Paypal and advertiser links may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites; that information may be used to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you.

A Short History of Lord Hyaena Elsa Wallace 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. "Short and strange, this hypnotic novella is engrossing, wild and curiously beautiful." Gay Times ISBN: 978 0 9525964 2 4 80 pages paperback; £3.99 Buy now (post free) We accept payment via paypal and also with most major credit cards (no paypal account needed) paperback £3.99

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. Also by Elsa Wallace from Paradise Press: Merle The Monkey Mirror Paradise Press authors: anthologies Rex BATTEN John DIXON Martin FOREMAN Timothy GRAVES Winston GREEN Michael HARTH Elizabeth LISTER Paul MANN Graham ROBERTSON Ian STEWART Elsa WALLACE Donald WEST