{"product_id":"tell-me-stories-9780810147300","title":"Tell Me: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQueer stories about love, loneliness, the surreal, and the self\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The stories in \u003ci\u003eTell Me\u003c\/i\u003e feature queer men of various ages reckoning with loneliness, selfishness, and the struggle for self-discovery and identity. In \"The Vanisher,\" a young bisexual man struggling with his own desire to be seen receives a bandana that allows him to become invisible. In \"Retreat,\" a widower travels to an artists' colony to seek an audience with his recently deceased husband. And in \"We Are Rendered Silent,\" people lose their ability to speak when a man they love dies. Through Baumann's inventive employment of the strange and surreal, these stories set out to explore the bizarre and often confounding experience of navigating modern-day queerness. With his unique voice and magnificent imagination, Baumann fully immerses readers in the queer experience. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOE BAUMANN\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the short story collections \u003ci\u003eSing \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ewith Me at the Edge of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Plagues\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhere Can I Take You When There's Nowhere to Go\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHot Lips\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novels \u003ci\u003eI Know You're Out There Somewhere \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLake, Drive\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThird Coast, Passages North, Phantom Drift, \u003c\/i\u003eand many others.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Curbstone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459039138066,"sku":"9780810147300","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_53f3afc5-f63f-453b-af1b-1024ded61b67.jpg?v=1729973120","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tell-me-stories-9780810147300","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}