Queer View Mirror 2 is a second volume of lesbian and gay short short fiction: snapshots of queer life that articulate, in one thousand words or less, different ways of the world. One hundred and one stories from writers in eight different countries make up Queer View Mirror 2. Their subject matter ranges the wide spectrum of gay experience, from first kisses to journeys home, moving stories of family and childhood, hot tales of stolen glances and one-night stands. Diverse and imaginative, these stories depict the pleasures and the politics of being queer. And by again collecting work by lesbians and gay men in one volume, the anthology acknowledges the common ground within the collective gay experience while at the same time celebrating its diversity.
Included in the collection are pieces by such well-known writers as Maureen Brady, Nisa Donnelly, Michael Thomas Ford, Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Larissa Lai, Lesléa Newman, Carol Queen, Patrick Roscoe, Lawrence Schimel, and David Watmough.

In addition to editing three volumes of Quickies and co-editing two volumes of Queer View Mirror with Karen X. Tulchinsky, James C. Johnstone's writing has been published in the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Sister & Brother: Lesbians & Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together, Flashpoints: Gay Male Sexual Writing, Prairie Fire, Icon Magazine, The Buzz, and Homefronts: Controversies in the Queer Parenting Community. He is co-editor of Queer View Mirror: Lesbian and Gay Short Short Fiction, and Queer View Mirror 2. He is also editor of Quickies1, 2, &3 : Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire.

James has worked as a Japanese language interpreter, translator, and tour escort, and is now the proprietor of Home History Research Services, which provides historical information on houses and buildings to Vancouver clients.

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Aren X. Tulchinsky is the award-winning author of Love Ruins Everything (Press Gang Publishers), a novel that was named one of the top ten books of 1998 by the Bay Area Reporter and has been translated into German and French; its sequel, Love and Other Ruins (Polestar); and In Her Nature (Women’s Press), a collection of short fiction which won the 1996 VanCity Book Prize.His screenplays have been short-listed in the Praxis Screenwriting competition and the Los Angeles-based Chesterfield Film Company Writer’s Project. He is a graduate of the prestigious Canadian Film Centre’s Professional Screenwriting Programme, where he wrote two feature-length screenplays and a short film, Straight in the Face, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and was broadcast on Showcase TV.Tulchinksy has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including the Vancouver Sun, Georgia Straight, Now Magazine, Xtra West, Canadian Screenwriter and the National Post, and has taught creative writing at Langara College and Screenwriting at the UBC Writing Centre.

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