41 Frags and Other Short Stories

A triptych of short stories linked by the common thematic strand of homosexuality and how society treats those who practise it – in the past, the present and the future.

41 Frags. Theo is HIV-positive. He keeps a diary. He calls the diary entries “Frags”. Here are forty-one of them. This short story won Chroma’s International Queer Writing Competition in 2009.

The Sound of Trains. In the West Country of the 1930s, Joseph, a young farmer, falls for a new farmhand. Can their love affair survive in spite of Joseph's parents, the church and the law, not to mention the new war that’s on the horizon?

Summerspeak. Tris is madly in love with a man he has only ever met on the Cybernet, but is this man really a man at all?