Matthew Bright

The speculative shines bright in the dark with these stories by Matthew Bright: a boy with a secret begins work at a strange library housing all the books never written; Dorian Gray's love of beauty struggles in the face of AIDs-era San Francisco and the Castro; the tomb of the Empress is adrift in space and hungry for the concubines aboard her; two men in an old film finally realize that they are trapped but still they seek the means for finally declaring their love for each other. These and other tales of the queer fantastic should be the perfect bedtime read.

A LOVE THAT SPILLS ACROSS THE PAGES AND SPANS THE AGESDashby is an affluent 19th century gent, bored with the tired rituals of courtship and the monotony of a sheltered, privileged life. Bex is a 21st century party girl, disenchanted by the crude reality of the modern world and searching for a way to belong. Divided by class, circumstance and an entire century, watch how their stories echo one another, frolic together, and literally intertwine on the page. The constraints of time itself collapse in the wake of true love, in this innovative work of short fiction.