Short stories tagged with LGBTQ

Listing 26 stories.

A lonely young boy navigates his sexually-frustrated mother and closeted gay father's unhappy marriage.

Ruriko visits robot versions of her former bandmates, who are kept in a sex hotel. Through talking with them, she revisits the day all of them died, leaving her the sole survivor.

Through three tales of impossible machines with abilities to manipulate the physical world, travel through time and space, and bestow telepathy onto an entire community, candidates of an engineering exam in the far future are asked to ponder fantastical implications of technology.

A woman loses her glasses at a rest stop on the way to visit her girlfriend. She knows that her girlfriend will be furious if she is late, and that she cannot drive without her glasses, so she accepts help from a strange man who leads her down the highway and they begin to walk the rest of the way together.

A couple attends the show of a marvelous, sensuous, and regal African American singer in Paris. The wife of the couple finds herself struggling for a grip as the pleasure of seeing this performer infiltrates her fortress of restraint.

After his longtime boyfriend kicks him out, a promising young illustrator moves to Arizona where he reflects on everything he’s had to do for money. As he tries to capture these memories in his paintings, he begins to understand all that he’s lost as well as what might be possible.

A young Caribbean merwoman decides to bring her friends to explore living on land, but the trip puts them in horrible danger. Upon returning underwater, she must face the consequences of putting her entire community at risk.

A middle-aged chorus member lives for years with her parents after her husband leaves her for their male chorus director. Though she stays close friends with her former husband, she feels betrayed when she gets in an argument with the director and is asked to leave the chorus for good.

A young, aspiring Native chef in New York City falls in love with a mysterious deer-woman, who convinces her to murder and harvest the hearts of white women to avenge the deaths of her ancestors.

When a lesbian couple moves into a haunted house whose lease they can't break, they must change their way of life to adapt to their eerie surroundings.