Guess Again: Short Stories
by Bernard Cooper
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Guess Again is a rich and eclectic collection of exquisitely crafted short stories. Written with unsparing honesty, these stories vividly illustrate love's complexities, the intricacies of family relationships, struggles with sexual identity, and the specter of AIDS. Whether chronicling a dying man's acts of vandalism, a divorcée under house arrest, a Mormon couple's potluck dinner for their few homosexual acquaintances, or a young Los Angeles boy's sexual awakening, the stories in Guess show more Again are full of wit, subtlety, and emotional generosity. show lessTags
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Bernard Cooper has taught at Antioch/Los Angeles and at the UCLA Writer's Program and is currently the art critic for Los Angeles Magazine
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- Guess Again: Short Stories
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- Some say that love's a little boy,
And some say it's a bird,
Some say it makes the world go round,
And some say that's absurd,
And when I asked the man next-door,
Who looked as if he knew,
His wife got very ... (show all)cross indeed,
And said it wouldn't do.
Does it look like a pair of pyjamas,
Or a ham in a temperance hotel?
Does its odour remind one of llamas,
Or has it a comforting smell?
Is it prickly to the touch like a hedge is,
Or soft as eiderdown fluff?
Is it sharp or quite smooth at the edges?
O tell me the truth about love.
- W. H. Auden - First words
- As Kay shouted instructions in the background, I angled the telescope down the mountain toward the home of her ex-husband, but no matter how carefully I focused the lens or adjusted the tripod I couldn't make out much more th... (show all)an a tile roof surrounded by trees.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)After a dazed and difficult waking, there we are.
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