Works by Jess Wells
(Writer)

jesswells@earthlink.net
http://www.jesswells.com/
Profile created 2003

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Anthologies -- Gay -- Lesbian -- Literature & Fiction

Jess Wells is is currently working on a novel set in the Middle Ages. -- from Saints & Sinners

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• Run: Stories and Collages (1981)

• The Dress/The Sharda Stories (1989)

• Two Willow Chairs (1989)

• Aftershocks (1992)
  This classic tale of control, fear and upheaval, features Trout, a successful businesswoman unaccustomed to losing control...Her partner-in-life Patricia, eyewitness to the collapse of abuilding she hleped construct...Cherice, a bisexual trapped in an elevator with a straight man... Louise, whose bar becomes a haven for so many whose lives have suddenly become upended.

• Lesbians Raising Sons: An Anthology (1997) -- Finalist Lambda Literary Award

• Lip Service: Alluring New Lesbian Erotica (1999) with Anne Seale and Merril Mushroom (Contributors)

• Home Fronts: Controversies in the Nontraditional Parenting Community (2000) -- Finalist Lambda Literary Award

• The Price of Passion: An Erotic Journey (1999)
  In The Price of Passion, Simone -- the orphaned, emotionally neglected daughter of a wealthy family -- must earn her inheritance by traveling the globe delivering a message to her dying grandmother's lovers. The young woman hopes that the pilgrimage will help her reconstruct her shadowed family history -- the shape of lives lived without her, but learns that there is a price to be paid for the emotions one is willing to feel, and the truths one is capable of acknowledging.

• Home Fronts (2000)

• Love Shook My Heart 2: Lesbian Love Stories (2001) -- Finalist, 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Fiction Anthologies

• The Mandrake Broom (Future Release)
  The Mandrake Broom involves the tension between visibility and invisibility, between internal strength and external powerlessness, and the continually fluid interplay of those factors, while it takes the reader through persecution and Plague, love and joy, and the struggle for unity.