The Other World

<h4><strong>THE OTHER WORLD</strong></h4><h4><strong>Stories by John Stewart Wynne</strong></h4><h4><strong>(Lambda Literary Award nominee Best Gay Fiction for his novel THE RED SHOES)</strong></h4><p class=ql-align-center></p><p><strong>One of the best books of the decade. <em>(The James White Review)</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p><strong>A book to handle with asbestos gloves but well worth the walk through fire. <em>(Paul Monette National Book Award winner)</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p><strong>This is an incredibly powerful book. (Rebecca Brown Lambda Literary Award winner)</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>***</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><h4><strong><em>Have you ever had a message from The Other World?</em></strong></h4><p class=ql-align-center></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Peopled with sociopaths circus performers a cross-dressing teenager a prostitute and her pimp and God-fearing families these stories have a hallucinatory edge making the everyday seem like another world.</strong></p><h3></h3><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>The Other World</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In this dark satire a Christian right family is so concerned about sheltering their teenage son from homosexuality that they're oblivious to the fact he's the neighborhood rapist.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Nameless Thing</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In this Texas circus three into two don't go. A triangle involving a dwarf a friendly costume designer and her surly lover ends in tragedy above the banks of the Rio Grande.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Raphael</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Raphael a cross-dressing teenage boy spends the Christmas holiday at the Plaza Hotel in New York with his high-strung mother ... but can only think of his romantic fantasies about the family chauffeur.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Lights of Broadway</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A Times Square prostitute discounts the violent threats her john makes against a hit queer musical down the street from her apartment ... with devastating consequences.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Halloween Card</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A drug-fueled loft party for Manhattan hipsters ends up in a surprising location come the dawn.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Vulture</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In the Deep South an aimless drifter kills his girlfriend and tries to hide her body in a well ... but he's not alone. He's being watched by a young girl.</span></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center></p>