The hottest software company is about to go public, raking in serious scratch. Only one problem the mysterious death of their programming wizard! It s 1984. The era of the desktop computer has dawned. Software companies are sprouting around the country like mushrooms. The biggest buzz in the financial press is about Locust, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its president, David Hedges, is already out of the box with a line of high-end business products. He s itching to go public and make his hundreds of millions and Wall Street has his IPO all lined up. His ace-in-the-hole is lead programmer, Rusty van Handle, whose piece of Locust will bring him a bundle. Though van Handle is a hot-shot in the digital world, he has a different reputation around town. There s his plan to muscle-in on a real estate deal and take the property of an elderly black woman in the South End, and his claim that he owns half of the break-out pop band, Dead Enz, whose lead singer, Sal Ianucci, he regularly supplies with cocaine. Actually, van Handle was a regular supplier of cocaine to many, and he had mountains of the powder. The day before the IPO, van Handle s body is found splattered on a street in the South End. Wearing handcuffs. Murder? Accident? Suicide? The Locust IPO goes on hold, and may burn-out entirely. The press is all over the scandal. David Hedges is livid and uses his influence to make sure someone anyone is nailed for the crime.

Dead Enz

Kyle G. Brixton

John Mitzel & Shannon Austin

Calamus Books

CEREMONIES is the story of a gay community in a small Maine city traumatized by the murder of a young gay man. CEREMONIES places intimate, intertwined, first-person narratives against the historical background of Ronald Reagan's second presidential campaign, an anti-gay federal court ruling and homophobic judgments by the Bishop of Portland. CEREMONIES is a profound, absorbing novel about the many ways of being gay in America.

Ceremonies

LGBTQ+ Books

Cathcart, Dwight

Literature & Fiction

LAST GLEAMINGS is Mitzel's first short story collection since his 1977 volume, SOME SHORT STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE I DON'T LIKE. Included are: How To Write A Short Story, Death Was A Scream, Chua's Story and others.

Last Gleamings

Mitzel

JOHN

This is possibly the sweetest gay fantasy book written during the magical post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS epoch. It's a series of poems/stories about fairy men living in a community, spending time together, wearing spangles, and mocking straight society.

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Mitchell, Larry

Mercy Drop: And Other Plays

Patrick, Robert

Dramas & Plays

Terminal Bar: A Novel

United States

Niagara Falls and Other Plays

Bumbalo, Victor

Scar Tissue and Other Stories

Indiana, Gary

My Life As a Mole and Five Other Stories

Larry Mitchell

Acid Snow

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