<div> Queer stories about love, loneliness, the surreal, and the self The stories in Tell Me feature queer men of various ages reckoning with loneliness, selfishness, and the struggle for self-discovery and identity. In "The Vanisher," a young bisexual man struggling with his own desire to be seen receives a bandana that allows him to become invisible. In "Retreat," a widower travels to an artists' colony to seek an audience with his recently deceased husband. And in "We Are Rendered Silent," people lose their ability to speak when a man they love dies. Through Baumann's inventive employment of the strange and surreal, these stories set out to explore the bizarre and often confounding experience of navigating modern-day queerness. With his unique voice and magnificent imagination, Baumann fully immerses readers in the queer experience. &nbsp; </div>

Tell Me: Stories

Literature & Fiction

Baumann, Joe

Short Stories & Anthologies

Curbstone Books 2

Lake Drive

Literary

Rebel Satori Press

Sing With Me at the Edge of Paradise: Stories (Iron Horse Prize)

Texas Tech University Press

Kyle Filburn appears to have a picture-perfect life. He's entering his senior year, in a relationship with a great girl, on his high school's three-times-straight state championship soccer team, and an art professor from the local university has invited him to show and sell his work in his gallery.\nBut a chance meeting with a midfielder from a rival high school creates cracks in this picture-perfect life. Kyle develops feelings for this boy, throwing him into confusion. What does he want? And with whom? And when an anonymous patron starts buying his art, Kyle starts to wonder whether he should really be pursuing art school rather than athletics.\nIt becomes crystal clear that this picture-perfect life no longer reflects who Kyle is or who he wants to be...but what does that mean for Kyle?

I Know You're Out There Somewhere

LGBTQ+ Books

Deep Hearts YA

In Joe Baumann's newest collection Where Can I Take You When There's Nowhere To Go, queer men explore their sense of who they are and what they want, often in worlds that are tilted askew from what we might expect.&nbsp; Thirteen surreal short stories utilize the strange and the bizarre as a backdrop for explorations of loneliness, queer coming-of-age, self-discovery, and loss. In "We Adore These Bodies Until They Are Gone," people evaporate when suffering isolation and directionless; in "Happy Birthdays," characters transform into different ages when they consume particular kinds of cake; and in the titular story, a pair of lonely teenagers come together at a party after one of them gifts the other with a small cloud he has spun out of his own hands.Baumann's tender vignettes of love, anger, grief, and desire are a stunning ode to the places and people that can give us solace within an absurd and chaotic world.

Where Can I Take You When There's Nowhere To Go (American Reader Series, 40)

Genre Fiction

BOA Editions, Ltd.

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