We Live without a Future and Other Stories

Seven queer stories about our favourite literary figures. Lord Byron encounters a gorgeous ghost in Verona. An author seeks to share her truths. Feste discusses love and revenge. Oscar Wilde discovers more than he expected in a deep Colorado mine. La Belle Dame sans Merci shares her perspective. An engineer is astonished to find a lost manuscript in an old cellar. While Virginia Woolf contemplates peace during another world war…

"In Fair Verona": Adventures naturally befall Lord Byron while he travels through Europe, but all are deliciously surpassed when he is visited by an apparition in the book-lined parlour of an old palazzo in Verona.

"Verity": Much has changed since Verity and her beloved Stella died...

"In a Dark House": Couples coalesce in happiness, while the lone ones are cast adrift… Feste is glad to see the back of Sir Andrew, is tempted to follow Antonio, a man of his own nature – but surprises even himself when instead he starts to search for the vengeful Malvolio.

"Magic Casements": Oscar Wilde is touring North America lecturing on aesthetics – so why wouldn’t the Poet of Beauty and Truth be much on his mind?

"Chooser of the Slain": Lily has a mission, which has been harshly and unjustly characterised.

"Misplaced": Sam is an engineer indulging her dreams of archaeology... What buried treasure does she discover while Reading Train Station is being redeveloped?

"We Live Without a Future": With their home in London destroyed in the Blitz, Leonard and Virginia Woolf find what peace they can in a village near the Sussex coast. But with German and British planes grinding overhead, and the looming threat of a Nazi invasion, there is never enough peace to be had. There is never enough.