Life Is Better with Love: Best Short Stories of Johnny Townsend - Johnny Townsend

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Résumé :
From over 500 short stories published over three decades, author Johnny Townsend presents several of his favorites. A gay couple steals from the rich to support their favorite charities. Two young women vie for the affection of the same missionary. A father with a speech impediment is forced into the spotlight after his daughter survives a school shooting. A reporter seeks the identity of Salt Lake's new superhero-a masked man wearing temples clothes who mysteriously shows up at crime scenes. Two young missionaries in the Pacific Northwest sneak out on a date. An uncle awaits word on his niece caught up in the 2004 tsunami. Missionaries in Rome try to prevent a terrorist bombing. These are stories that celebrate love and life. Because Life Is Better with Love.

Biographie:
A climate crisis immigrant who relocated from New Orleans to Seattle in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Johnny Townsend wrote the first account of the UpStairs Lounge fire, an attack on a French Quarter gay bar which killed 32 people in 1973. He was an associate producer for the documentary Upstairs Inferno, for the sci-fi film Time Helmet, and for the deaf gay short Flirting, with Possibilities. His books include Please Evacuate, Racism by Proxy, and Wake Up and Smell the Missionaries. His novel, Orgy at the STD Clinic, set entirely on public transit, details political extremism, climate upheaval, and anti-maskers in the midst of a pandemic.