Category: Adults, General Fiction, LGBT
Language: EnglishKeywords: Queer Short Story Collection
Written by Torrey Peters
Read by Lee Osorio, Briggon Snow, Eileen Noonan, Pyrrha Nicole
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
In this collection of one novel and three stories, bestselling author Torrey Petersâs keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing.
In Stag Dance, the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend as women. When the broadest, strongest, plainest of the axmen announces his intention to dance as a woman, he finds himself caught in a strange rivalry with a pretty young jack, provoking a cascade of obsession, jealousy, and betrayal that will culminate on the big night in an astonishing vision of gender and transition.
Three startling stories surround Stag Dance: âInfect Your Friends and Loved Onesâ imagines a gender apocalypse brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend. In âThe Chaser,â a secret romance between roommates at a Quaker boarding school brings out intrigue and cruelty. In the last story, âThe Masker,â a party weekend on the Las Vegas strip turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between two guides: a handsome mystery man who objectifies her in thrilling ways, or a cynical veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.
Acidly funny and breathtaking in its scope, with the inventive audacity of George Saunders or Jennifer Egan, Stag Dance provokes, unsettles, and delights.
Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
Release date: 03-11-25
In this collection of one novel and three stories, bestselling author Torrey Petersâs keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing.
In Stag Dance, the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend as women. When the broadest, strongest, plainest of the axmen announces his intention to dance as a woman, he finds himself caught in a strange rivalry with a pretty young jack, provoking a cascade of obsession, jealousy, and betrayal that will culminate on the big night in an astonishing vision of gender and transition.
Three startling stories surround Stag Dance: âInfect Your Friends and Loved Onesâ imagines a gender apocalypse brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend. In âThe Chaser,â a secret romance between roommates at a Quaker boarding school brings out intrigue and cruelty. In the last story, âThe Masker,â a party weekend on the Las Vegas strip turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between two guides: a handsome mystery man who objectifies her in thrilling ways, or a cynical veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.
Acidly funny and breathtaking in its scope, with the inventive audacity of George Saunders or Jennifer Egan, Stag Dance provokes, unsettles, and delights.
Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
Release date: 03-11-25