The Park Bench
Thompson Walker, $21.95 pb, 109 pp
Fiction
The Park Bench by Henry von Doussa
by W.H. Chong •
To prove the fairyness of tales, this world’s relationships start at ‘Happily’ and only then progress to their trials. The Park Bench tells what happens when hope of the ‘ever after’ fades into that space bordered by numb disappointment and the aggressive need to regain sensation. In gay fiction, that place is no man’s land.
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