Dancing on the Moon: Short Stories About AIDS

by Jameson Currier

Unflinching honesty and eloquent style and grace mark a collection of short stories that deal with the emotionally complex and highly controversial subject of AIDS.

Genres: Short Stories, Gay, Fiction, Gay Fiction

208 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1993

About the author

Jameson Currier is the author of five novels, Where the Rainbow Ends, nominated for a Lambda Literary award, The Wolf at the Door, The Third Buddha, What Comes Around, and The Forever Marathon, and four collections of short fiction: Dancing on the Moon; Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex; Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories; and The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, which was awarded a Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection. His short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines and Web sites, including Velvet Mafia, Blithe House Quarterly, Confrontation, Christopher Street, and the anthologies Men on Men 5, Best American Gay Fiction 3, Boyfriends from Hell, Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best American Erotica, Best Gay Romance, Best Gay Stories, Circa 2000, Rebel Yell, I Do/I Don't, Where the Boys Are, Nine Hundred & Sixty-Nine, Wilde Stories, Unspeakable Horror, and Making Literature Matter. His AIDS-themed short stories have also been translated into French by Anne-Laure Hubert and published as Les Fantômes. His reviews, essays, interviews, and articles on AIDS and gay culture have been published in many national and local publications, including The Washington Post, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Lambda Book Report, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, The Washington Blade, Southern Voice, Metrosource, Bay Area Reporter, Frontiers, The New York Blade, and Body Positive. In 2010, he began Chelsea Station Editions, an independent press for gay books, and the following year launched Chelsea Station, a literary magazine devoted to gay-themed writing. In 2013 he edited two original anthologies for the press: Between: New Gay Poetry and With: New Gay Fiction. He currently resides in Manhattan.

Reviews

[John Treat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Have you ever read a collection of short stories and had the impression they were written for you, and only you? Currier wrote the stories I wanted to write, but he got there first. I saw him once, last May across a crowded gallery in New Orleans. I wish I had introduced myself. But then, I wouldn't have had much to say, other than perhaps: Like you, I write. But now, having finished Dancing on the Moon, I have a great deal to say.

[David Swatling · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't read more than one a day. I couldn't read one every day. Each demanded its own space and time. Together, a ripple effect - ever expanding circles of humanity.