Consequences of Attraction

<p class=ql-align-center><strong>Desire draws them together. What follows is never simple.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>A brand new collection of five gay-themed stories by John Stewart Wynne (Lambda Literary Award-nominated author of the novel <em>The Red Shoes</em>) about how desire re-shapes us. Ranging in locations from East Hampton to the Scottish Highlands to Provincetown and Tahiti the stories vary in tone-tragic comic mystical-but share a psychological and emotional core and a commonality: that getting close changes everything.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em><u>A Killing in East Hampton</u></em></strong></p><p>A story of class resentment and suspicion in a young wealthy gay married couple's new neighborhood<span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-</span>where a friendship across generations ends in betrayal.</p><p></p><p><strong><em><u>Narcissist</u></em></strong></p><p>A professor falls under the spell of a beautiful teen who like the mythical Narcissus only offers back his own reflection.</p><p></p><p><strong><em><u>We're Going Places</u></em></strong></p><p>A sharply drawn satire in which a retired soap star whisks away his young fiancé to Tahiti but ambition aging and the need for visibility follow them around the world.</p><p></p><p><strong><em><u>Louise Don't Go</u></em></strong></p><p>Two older women meet in a hotel in the Scottish Highlands and engage in a delicate act of longing and spectral memory blurring the boundary between past and future.</p><p></p><p><strong><em><u>Blonds</u></em></strong></p><p>A young runaway lands in Provincetown and finds comfort in a relationship with a reclusive housepainter<span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-</span>until jealousy unravels everything they've built.</p><p></p><p><strong>These stories explore the shifting ground between love and loss intimacy and illusion in quiet storms of psychological tension. Dark tender ironic and emotionally precise they reveal just how far the heart will go-and what it leaves behind.</strong></p><p></p>