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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Close to Spider Man
Short Stories
Close to Spider Man is Ivan Coyote's debut collection of stories. A collection of connected stories whose female narrators seek out lives for themselves amidst the lonely, breathtaking landscape of the Yukon. The young women in Ivan Coyote's deeply personal stories are looking to make a break from their circumstances, but the North is in their bones: so is their connections to family, friends, and other women. Like the protagonist in the title story, a waitress whose attempts to help a young co-worker saddled with a lunatic father finds her running across rooftops and climbing ladders; by getting close to Spider Man, she gets closer to freedom.
Startling in their intimacy, the stories in Close to Spider Man make up a moving scrapbook of what it's like to be a young queer woman in the North, journeys imbued with the colours of a prescient sexuality and an honest heart.
Runner-up, Danuta Gleed Award for Short-Fiction
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About
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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Books by Ivan
Missed Her
Short Stories
The Slow Fix
Short Stories
Bow Grip
Novel
Loose End
Short Stories
One Man's Trash
Short Stories
Close to Spider Man
Short Stories
