The Unseen: A Short Story Excerpt by Joseph Jess Rey
The Unseen (a short story excerpt)
by Joseph Jess Rey
Los Angeles, January 1988
The deaths began at the start of the decade. Five gay men were...
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Meet Clay Brown
by Christina Renee Milliner
“My name is Clay Brown, I’m 19, and I was born with HIV.”
Four sets of questioning eyes glared at...
Russell: Fiction by Geer Austin
Russell
by Geer Austin
When Russell Glickman died, sometime in the mid-eighties, he and I were completely out of touch. I’d seen him once or twice...
Good Humor: Fiction by John Whittier Treat
Good Humor
by John Whittier Treat
Michael remembered watching his mother Betty from a distance, as if she wasn’t his mother at all but somehow a...
Mustang Ray: Fiction by Michael E. Sawan
Mustang Ray
by Michael E. Sawan
I’m not one for beautiful days, so take it on faith that this one was a real peach. The type...
Meet Raymond Luczak, A&U’s New Fiction Editor
We are thrilled to welcome esteemed writer Raymond Luczak to our team as fiction editor. Raymond has been with the magazine from issue one—no...
Nightstand: Fiction by James Magruder
Nightstand
by James Magruder
"How soon can you be out of here?”
Asked Louis, my husband of two years. I had come home to Philadelphia from a...
The Pond: Fiction by John Whittier Treat
The Pond
by John Whittier Treat
Alan died on a hot day, but it had been hot all summer. Steve wasn’t there when the long fart...
The Inanimate Me: Fiction by Martin Shaw
The Inanimate Me
There’s only one rotten apple in this hospital, an old-school homophobic male nurse who’s pheromonic orchestration of testosterone is thwarted by the...
Hummingbird Pays a Visit to Jamie’s Grave: Nonfiction by Ephraim de...
Hummingbird Pays a Visit to Jamie’s Grave
by Ephraim de Francisco Solanas
I was certain that storing Jamie’s ashes on a bookshelf in the bedroom was...
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