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Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
Sometimes, certain things are not what they seem. With a little bit
of luck, it pays to be at the right place at the right time and
Stephie Jenkins, a young photographer with no formal education but
sheer talent, proved that sometimes opportunities exists are the
unlikeliest places. It was a chance in a lifetime when she was
offered the job of being the photographer of a rock band, which
entailed touring with the band for 6 months and taking photographs
for their collection. Every young girl's fantasy is to fall in love
with a rock star and be swept off their feet in glitz and glamour.
It started out as an infatuation on the lead singer, Chris but as
time goes by, she began to develop strong feelings for him. He was
involved with another girl at first and paid her minimal attention
but her kindness and patience paid off in the end when he broke off
with his girlfriend and started a relationship with her. However,
Stephie has a secret that will tear their relationship apart. Will
Chris ever forgive Stephie when he finds out and will their love
survive the different curveballs thrown their way? Only time will
tell.
Are you prepared to enter acclaimed author Hal Duncan's world of
scruffians and scamps and sodomites? Beware, for it is filled with
the gay pirate gods of Love and Death, immortal scoundrels, and
young men who find themselves forced to become villains. But who
amongst us does not adore a gamin antihero? These fantastical tales
from the fringes of an imaginative realm of supernatural fairies
and human fey will captivate the reader. Light a smoke, raise a cup
of whiskey, and seek a careful spot to cruise the Scruffians This
deluxe edition of Scruffians contains one never-before-published
short story and over forty full-color photographs that compliment
the fantastical and homoerotic elements of Duncan's imaginative
tales.
The stories in this book began as individuals. Some, 'Diocletian's
Cabbages', had been in my mind as an intriguing idea for years
while others, 'A Head Start', came complete, quite suddenly, often
waking me in the early hours of the morning. Only after several had
been written down did I realize that they all spoke of change. I
arranged them, not in the order in which they had been written, but
geographically. They started in Europe and moved through England to
the west coast of Canada and the United States. Only when this was
settled did I see that they began and ended in the same place.
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