We Live Without a Future and other stories

Seven queer stories about our favourite literary figures. Lord Byron encounters a gorgeous ghost in Verona. An author seeks to share her truths. Feste discusses love and revenge. Oscar Wilde discovers more than he expected in a deep Colorado mine. La Belle Dame sans Merci shares her perspective. An engineer is astonished to find a lost manuscript in an old cellar. While Virginia Woolf contemplates peace during another world war…

In Fair Verona

Adventures naturally befall Lord Byron while he travels through Europe, but all are deliciously surpassed when he is visited by an apparition in the book-lined parlour of an old palazzo in Verona.

Verity

Much has changed since Verity and her beloved Stella died...

In a Dark House

Couples coalesce in happiness, while the lone ones are cast adrift… Feste is glad to see the back of Sir Andrew, is tempted to follow Antonio, a man of his own nature – but surprises even himself when instead he starts to search for the vengeful Malvolio.

Magic Casements

Oscar Wilde is touring North America lecturing on aesthetics – so why wouldn’t the Poet of Beauty and Truth be much on his mind?

Chooser of the Slain

Lily has a mission, which has been harshly and unjustly characterised.

Misplaced

Sam is an engineer indulging her dreams of archaeology... What buried treasure does she discover while Reading Train Station is being redeveloped?

We Live Without a Future

With their home in London destroyed in the Blitz, Leonard and Virginia Woolf find what peace they can in a village near the Sussex coast. But with German and British planes grinding overhead, and the looming threat of a Nazi invasion, there is never enough peace to be had. There is never enough.