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|  | | Degranon: A Gay Science Fiction Adventure
This revised version of Duane Simolke's science fiction adventure Degranon features more gay characters and a sharper focus on diversity themes.
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“A scifi story reminiscent of Asimov's early work, but with undeniably gay sensibilities.” HomoMojo.
“In Degranon, author Duane Simolke establishes his voice in gay genre writing by combining current concerns revolving around queer culture with a world of dimensional doorways, advanced technology, and distant planets.” X-Factor, October 1, 2004 issue.
“A must read.” Joe Wright, a reviewer for StoneWall Society.
“A reminder of the danger of fanaticism.” Mark Kendrick, author of the gay time-travel romance Stealing Some Time.
“Duane Simolke's latest offerin | |  | | Fat Diary: Free Texas Humor eBook
A West Texas librarian makes fun of herself and the other people in her town, while writing about her reasons for wanting to lose weight.
A West Texas librarian makes fun of herself and the other people in her town, while writing about her reasons for wanting to lose weight.
Pamela Mae Willard must learn to love herself. Still, she can’t resist laughing about her problems, and about the adventures of the colorful characters in Acorn, Texas.
This irreverent, politically incorrect tale reveals a woman finding joy in life, no matter what happens to her and no matter who mistreats her.
| |  | | Holding Me Together, featuring Reactions to Homophobia
Winner: StoneWall Society Pride 2002 For The Record Award! Featuring Simolke’s most popular poems (“Bareback,” etc.) and essays (“Reactions to Homophobia,” etc.).
P>This award-winning collection begins with the long essay "Reactions to Homophobia," followed by poems and short essays on a variety of topics, such as religion, violence, friendship, and gay relationships. "Reactions to Homophobia" counters anti-gay statements made on the basis of family, the Bible, etc.
Ronald L. Donaghe (Common Sons) writes "Duane Simolke's seminal work Holding Me Together is a gratifying mixture of scholarship, art, and personal expression. In the long essay, 'Reactions to Homophobia,' readers will meet an intelligent and patient narrator who takes virtually ev | |  | | Selected Poems
This short eBook includes the gay love poem “Home,” the strange story of “The Gardener,” and the comical “Angels and Razors,” as well as thirty other poems. These works also appear in Duane Simolke’s longer anthology Holding Me Together: Essays and Poems.
Gay pride, Gay romance, Gay men, Gay poem, Gay poems, Gay poetry, Gay poets, Gay writers, Love poems, Story poems, Humor, Homophobia, Exgay, Ex-gay, Diversity, Poetry, American poets, Lubbock poets, Texas poets
Complete list of poems in this book: Chasing Seagulls, Home, Album, Children in the Streets, The Gardener, Friday Afternoon Spectrum, Reception, second year, Angels and Razors, Separated, Faces, Songs In Sign Language, Forgotten, Higher Education, Family, Ex-Gay? Part I: Cocoon, Ex-Gay? Part II: The Ex-Me Movement, Ex-Gay? Part III: Who Does God Hate?, The Escape Artist, Daught | |  | | Sons of Taldra: A Gay Science Fiction Adventure
In an alternate reality, an Iroquois woman and her twin gay sons battle shapeshifting aliens.
Telius simply wants to marry the man he loves. Argen struggles with the residual effects of a deadly drug addiction. Both twins help their mother face Valchondria’s greatest threats.
Taldra accepted the title of Leader for Valchondria’s one-world government. Maintainer Admiral Nil blames her for a series of tragedies and might pose an even greater threat than the changelings that want to feed on humanity.
Native American storytelling inspired this stand-alone sequel to Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure.
“Refreshingly different, and at its beating heart is some m | |  | | Stein, Gender, Isolation, and Industrialism: New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio
This book examines the best-known work of American writer Sherwood Anderson.
Sherwood Anderson's story cycle Winesburg, Ohio illuminates a time of change both for American culture and for American literature during the early twentieth century. The importance of this work can be shown not only on its own merit but also through a comparative study with Gertrude Stein's "Melanctha," one of the works that heavily influenced it.
Themes of industrialism, alienation, sexual frustration, gender blurring, and patriarchal oppression can be found in Winesburg. Focusing on these themes can not only offer new perspectives on that book but also more clearly place it within | |  | | Taldra: Science Fiction Adventures
Set in an alternate reality, the Taldra novels focus on gays, people of color, and powerful women.
Books 1 and 2 of Taldra both appear in this specially priced collection.
Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure flings an Iroquois family into a battle across time and space.
In an alternate reality, Earth is the planet Valchondria. No illness exists, gay marriage is legal, and everyone is a person of color. However, the Maintainers carefully monitor everyone’s speech, actions, and weight. The Maintainers also force so-called “colorsighted” people to hide their ability to see in color.
The Iroquois scientist Taldra thinks of her twin gay sons as the hope for Val | |  | | The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer
From a scandal-rocked town in West Texas to a Blackfeet Indian reservation in Montana, these short stories take readers to surprising places in America and the human heart!
/center>/center>/center>/center>All author and editor royalties from The Acorn Gathering go to funding cancer research!
P>These stories range from gritty and controversial to gentle and touching. Starting with the West Texas setting from Duane Simolke’s collection The Acorn Stories, this anthology takes readers across several landscapes, during times of trouble, change, hope, and triumph.
P>Simolke edited the book and wrote four of its stories. Like Simolke’s other books, this one features a racially diverse cast, but this one also features five brilliant, undiscovered writers! | |  | | The Acorn Stories (West Texas Fiction)
Duane Simolke’s award-winning story cycle about small-town life in West Texas returns with a revised edition (paperback or hardcover), chosen by iUniverse as part of its “Editor’s Choice” series.
A closeted and supposedly “ex-gay” mayor, a brilliant but absent-minded artist, an amusing but possibly dangerous bigot, a cat named Morgana Le Fay…. Who knew West Texas could produce such bizarre characters?
Visit the West Texas town of Acorn! Enjoy the German festival, a high school football game, homemade apple pie from the Turner Street Café, and the cool shade of a hundred-year-old oak tree. Meet dedicated teachers, unusual artists, shrewd business owners, closeted gays, and concerned neighbors. See how lives become intertwined in moments of humor or tragedy. Just be careful, bec |
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