Stories that hold their ground
Trash: Stories
A collection exploring loss, shame, love and the difficult work of telling the truth. A starting point for readers drawn to lives beyond polite convention.
Read about Trash on DWGThe Dreamwalker collection · Independent voices
Small presses.
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Stories told on their own terms. Explore a shelf of creative experiments and voices that found a home in independent publishing.
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Four paths into the collection, with information from the authors and publishers themselves.
A life beyond easy categories
Stone Butch Blues
A novel about gender, working-class life and the search for belonging. The author’s website offers a free PDF and information about an at-cost print edition.
Find the free author edition (opens in a new tab)Coming out, in many voices
Does Your Mama Know?
An anthology of Black lesbian coming-out stories from the original Dreamwalker collection. Her DWG profile connects this anthology with more of her work.
Explore Lisa C. Moore on DWGCulture, identity and connection
Calendar Boy
Short fiction moving through gay and Asian identities, cultural heritage and self-discovery. His DWG profile brings together his books and related writing.
Explore Andy Quan on DWGFrom the original archive
The full small-press shelf.
All 21 original selections remain here. Some are available in newer editions; others may be found through libraries or secondhand sellers.
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21 books
The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book
Trash: Stories
Read about Trash on DWGMaking Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras
The bull-jean stories
Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
Creating Man
Stone Butch Blues
Free author edition & print options (opens in a new tab)Massage
Between Dances
Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies
The New Fuck You
Gay Roots : Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine : An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics, and Culture
Scared Straight: Why It's So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It's So Hard to Be Human
My Life As a Mole and Five Other Stories
Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories
Calendar Boy
Different Mothers: Sons and Daughters of Lesbians Talk About Their Lives
Conversaciones: Relatos por padres y madres de hijas lesbianas y hijos gay
Kamikaze Lust
Daddy's Roommate
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline
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Writers & connections.
The original directory connects this shelf with a wider circle of authors and editors. Follow a name to a book on this page or to an existing Dreamwalker profile.
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Presses & literary history.
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RedBone Press
Explore the press behind Does Your Mama Know? and the bull-jean stories, with information about Black lesbian and gay writing and its anthologies.
Visit RedBone Press (opens in a new tab)Aunt Lute Books
Gloria Anzaldúa’s Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras connects this shelf with Aunt Lute’s feminist publishing history and its wider collection.
Explore Aunt Lute (opens in a new tab)Lambda Literary
Many of the books on this shelf were gathered around the Lambda Literary Awards’ historical small-press categories. Follow the official records to explore that history.
Browse the award archive (opens in a new tab)Two names from the original press directory
These listings remain part of the collection’s history. A current ordering link has not been confirmed.
Project Pulp
The original page described a marketplace for independent magazines, books, art and music.
STARbooks Press
The original page described a small press publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry and erotica for gay and bisexual adult readers.