GLBT Literature & Fiction

All the Bold Days of My
Restless Life
by Sharon Stone
If you are already the head writer on a daytime drama, can you say your life is just like a soap opera? That's the question facing Bailey Connors, who is dumped by her girlfriend, saddled with the 22-year-old daughter of a network executive and driven close to madness by a friend's attempt at matchmaking. To top it off, she has been ordered to kill off the soap's leading lady on a special live episode, which will either be a disaster or the triumph of her career. But either way, love may be waiting on the other side in a very unexpected manner.
 

 
Life's Little Edge
by Roselle Graskey
Callan O'Malley embodies everything that should scare Terri Barclay. O'Malley freelances as a gun runner for a biker gang, the dark secrets of her past influencing her present. Thrown together by circumstance and unexpected complications of living in the biker world, the women's lives are turned into chaos. Loyal friends of past and present, add to the mixture which brings the two women closer than they ever thought possible. Terri, however, is hiding her own secrets. Secrets that could very well get her--or O'Malley--killed. Terri must walk a fine line between what she now wants and what she is forced into by her sense of duty. She must redefine her approach on life and love and acknowledge that not everything is as black and white as she once believed. She soon discovers that living on the edge with a woman such as O'Malley can be an exciting yet dangerous place.
 

 
Keeper of the Piece
by Lesley Davis
Keeper of the Piece is a fun fantasy story about a quirky and reclusive Animal Adept named Tatum Belan and a researcher sent to her for help to find an elusive plant. The adventure to find this rare plant with miraculous healing powers turns into a race against time and the oncoming of winter on the mountain. The journey changes both women's lives in unexpected ways, as journeys often do. This is one of those stories that Joseph Campbell would have classified as "the hero's journey." It is a classic and timeless tale with a contemporary openness to alternate ways of living and loving. It is very readable and a lot of fun.

 
Stop Kiss
by Diana Son
It doesn't do this play justice to say that much of the action takes place in a hospital room around the bed of a comatose woman. On the other hand, it may explain why critics have been so impressed. From unpromising material--standard urban settings, stilted exchanges, missed cues, private jokes, half-finished sentences--Diana Son has crafted a subtle, moving drama about vulnerability and risk. When Callie, a twentysomething New York traffic reporter, promises to take on a cat owned by Sara, "some friend of an old friend of someone," she arranges to leave quickly after Sara drops off the cat so that she doesn't get drawn into a dull evening with a stranger. Callie is an expert at avoiding conflict, which serves her well in the city. Sara, on the other hand, has willingly left her job at a Quaker school in St. Louis to teach third-graders in the Bronx. Although both are "straight" women, they circle each other warily, nursing an unspoken attraction. The playwright's choice to shuttle back and forth in time, between the hospital room and police station and the early days of Callie and Sara's friendship, lends a bittersweet quality to even their lightest exchanges, allowing us to wonder, along with the two women, whether the violent outcome of their single kiss makes it a bad idea. Stop Kiss revises Romeo and Juliet, with one thug and the mores of a nation standing in for the family feud.
 

 
Being Someone
by Ann MacLeod
When Ellen Harmon, a small town fourth-grade school teacher, introduces her students to her lesbian lover Janey and cattle dog Ida with the words “We’re another kind of family,” she’s not prepared for the result.  Follow these two women as they get fired, chase each other cross country, dive into San Francisco’s women’s movement and computer world and wind up on opposite sides of an anti-nuke demonstration. In the end, their lasting bond prevails over the conventional ambition to ‘be someone.’
 

 
At the Edge
Jennifer DiMarco
"At the Edge" is an important work that calls not only to those embracing death, but also to those taking risks to love those we will lose sooner than we had imagined or hoped."

 
Intimate Acts
by Terry Baum
"The plays in this collection ask us to view our own foolishness, desires, frustration, hurt, anger, and longing. They are emotional mirrors, offered by the playwrights, which reflect our commonality. Lesbian theater is written by women. We are members of multiple communities. We are mothers, sisters, lovers, friends. We come from every culture. We are political beings, we are spiritual beings. We inhabit the globe."