LGBT REVIEW: BEST GAY STORIES 2015 EDITED BY STEVE BERMAN

Best Gay Stories 2015
Editor: Steve Berman
Authors: Various
Publisher: Lethe Press
Genre: Gay Stories
ISBN: 1590210506
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes


Synopsis:
The table of contents to this book features fresh ideas, old hands, burly faces, genderqueer souls, shades of skin and hair as much as it does timber of voice, both actual and authorial. Best Gay Stories 2015 starts and ends with a kiss--between pressed lips are stories about our lives, our daydreams we want to leave our lives for, our oubliettes of our own making that define some lives. And there is laughter and tears and passion and pain, and between these kisses you find pasts, presents, and futures that leave you breathless and mindful that a lot can happen after as well as before you share that kiss.

BOOK REVIEW: THE BLUE DRAGON BY YIOLA DAMIANOU-PAPADOPOULOU

The Blue Dragon by Yiola Damianou-Papadopoulou
Reviewed by: Sandra Scholes
Publisher: Wattle Publishing
Pages: 126
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The Blue Dragon is only one of Yiola's novels, The Forest's Whisper, Our Heart's Journeys; A Life is Destiny, My Other Half; Hold on Through Your Dreams, This is How I Want to Remember; And the Slow Dance. For the novels she has won the Cyprus State Award in 1992 and the National Press Award and the Cyprus State Award for Children's Literature. As well as children's literature, Yiola also writes short stories for adults, Batoune and African Moments. She is a keen all-rounder and in this novel she excels.