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  • Hats Off

    An excerpt from Persistence - All Ways Butch and Femme

    Hats Off

    To all the beautiful, kick ass, fierce and full-bodied femmes out there, I would like to extend my thanks to you. It is for you that I press my shirts and carefully iron my ties....

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  • Maiden Heart

    An excerpt from Missed Her

    My dad and I share a weakness for a lady who needs help, it feeds something big and empty in us to arrive on the scene with a truck or jumper cables or a generator or wide open kind of dumb heart...

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  • Thicker Than Water

    An excerpt from The Slow Fix

    Everybody always says I look just like him. Every once in a while my grandmother hauls out the second oldest photo album from her closet and opens it on the kitchen table, next to the cut crystal...

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  • Bow Grip

    An excerpt from Bow Grip

    I would never have sold him the car in the first place if I’d have known what he was going to do with it.

    I’d seen him around town a couple of times, once or twice at the café, just...

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  • I Like To Wear Dresses

    An excerpt from Loose End

    I hadn’t seen the boys since September 2001, and they were all a foot taller now. It was intermission, and I snuck the three of them backstage. Galen was five and wide eyed, standing dwarfed in...

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  • Fear of Hoping in Las Vegas

    An excerpt from One Man's Trash

    Any doubts I may have previously had were gone. This was Las Vegas. Someone was going to marry us. We were still booked at the Candlelight Chapel for 7:45.

    "I'm afraid we can't perform a...

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  • No Bikini

    An excerpt from Close to Spider Man

    I had a sex change once, when I was six years old.

    The Lions pool where I grew up smelt like every other swimming pool everywhere, thats the thing about pools. Same smell. Doesn't matter...

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Ivan Coyote was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. An award-winning author of six collections of short stories, one novel, three CD’s, four short films and a renowned performer. More »

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