Muswell Press

but two large glasses of beer.

had an overwhelming response to the Queer Life, Queer Love call out for this second anthology and, inevitably, have only been able to feature a relatively small number of the works submitted. We thank all of those who submitted for sharing and trusting their words with us. We believe that the stories and poems that are presented here offer a rich, wide and diverse selection of not just the themes and preoccupations of queers today but also different approaches to writing queer words. The anthology reflects the subjectivities of queer lives, wrestles with their construct and marginalisation, and attempts to articulate those spaces –

had an overwhelming response to the Queer Life, Queer Love call out for this second anthology and, inevitably, have only been able to feature a relatively small number of the works submitted. We thank all of those who submitted for sharing and trusting their words with us. We believe that the stories and poems that are presented here offer a rich, wide and diverse selection of not just the themes and preoccupations of queers today but also different approaches to writing queer words. The anthology reflects the subjectivities of queer lives, wrestles with their construct and marginalisation, and attempts to articulate those spaces –

wondered what they would say at my funeral and how people who really knew me would lament I had so much more life to come,

caught the whiff on my breath.