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Toilet
by Thomas Woolley
(Foreword by D. Travers Scott)
cover illustration and design by Shane Luitjens/Torquere Creative
book design by Greg Wharton/Suspect Thoughts Press
gay fiction
softcover, 5X7
128 pages, $12.95
ISBN-10: 0-9763411-2-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-9763411-2-3
release: October 2005
From the Foreword by D. Travers Scott:
"We're more than fortunate to have a revised version published of Thomas Woolley's Toilet. Amped up with two new stories, Toilet is far from some nostalgic I [heart] the Queer '90s. The narrator in 'Fuckoff.com' writes that, 'I look at shock as armor in a life that is essentially one brutal offensive strike.' Originally published in 1998, those words ring even truer in today's era of Bush II, Iraq II, and 9/11. Woolley's stories break through that state of shock. They are revitalizing rather than numbing. Toilet is an electro-paddle jolt to jump-start our current times. It's a punch to the gut, an insistent kiss, a shot in the arm to wake up, breathe deeply, and be inspired. Inspired to fight for the world you want."
Read "Holiday" from Toilet here.
Read "That's Karma, Baby" from Toilet at Velvet Mafia.
Author Photograph by Johnny Miller
Thomas Woolley currently works in Manhattan at a national magazine in the marketing department where he is afforded the opportunity to create a lot of material dotted with excessive exclamation points. He lives in the much-maligned state of New Jersey with his lover and a cat so ferocious it had to be declawed.
Read
White Trash Families, Hankie Codes, Toilet, and Happy Endings:
A Conversation Between Martin Pousson and Thomas Woolley.
Visit the Thomas Woolley webpage.
"Both cheery and cantankerous, the stories and rantings of Toilet are linked by a battery-acid tone and a smart, atomic energy. Thomas Woolley is a wholly engaging original, and injects his humor with equal parts horror and sad, eerie nostalgia."
—Scott Heim, author of Mysterious Skin
More reviews available here.
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Publisher: Greg Wharton
Editor-in-Chief: Ian Philips
Art Director: Shane Luitjens/Torquere Creative
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