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Bitter waters, Chaz Brenchley ; with an introduction by Geoff Ryman ; edited by Karen Williams

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Bitter waters

Chaz Brenchley ; with an introduction by Geoff Ryman ; edited by Karen Williams

The average adult male is approximately 60% water. Blood tastes salty as more than two thirds of the sodium circulating throughout your body is carried in arteries and veins. Which means that your heart is like a miniature ocean within your chest. Chaz Brenchley has not only been awarded the British Fantasy Society's August Derleth Award but knows all too well the storms and dangers of the heart: the lofty desires, the grieving nadirs, the tempest of love. In Bitter Watters, his first short story collection devoted to gay readers, Brenchley offers men fantastical instances to effleurer, to break for taller timber, to drown in emotions. And while not every tale in this breathtaking collection involves the sea, tears and bloodshed still need to be navigated

Another chart of the silences -- Junk male -- The pillow-boy of General Shu -- In the night street baths -- The insolence of Candles against the night's dying -- Parting shots -- Up the airy mountain -- The light of other eyes -- Septicaemia -- The cupboard of cold things --True north --Hothouse flowers: or the discreet boys of Dr Barnabus -- One for evey year he's away, she said -- Keep the Aspidochelone floating -- 'tis pity he's ashore -- The boat of not belonging -- Villainelle