The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories brings together three decades of dazzling fiction on lesbian themes by women writers from all over the world.

Shrugging off narrow definitions of what a lesbian is, editor Emma Donoghue juxtaposes tales of fumbling twelve-year-olds and dying women, lifelong lovers and Don Juans in gold trousers, harassed mothers and women who shock themselves by falling for men.

Edited by Emma Donoghue.

Contents:

• Child’s Play
  • Monopoly by Jane Harris
  • Pamelump by Anna Livia
  • Funny Women by Shay Youngblood
  • Magic Eight Ball by Marion Douglas
  • The Lobster Queen by Susan Hampton
  • Free Love by Ali Smith
• Present Tense
  • Puerto Rico [from Don Juan in the Village] by Jane DeLynn
  • Kermit’s Room by Dale Gunthorp
  • In the Spice House by Marnie Woodrow
  • A Country Dance by Mary Dorcey
  • Some of My Best Friends by Michelene Wandor
• Family Values
  • River of Names by Dorothy Allison
  • Milk and Money by Annamarie Jagose
  • Out on Main Street by Shani Mootoo
  • Middle Children by Jane Rule
  • La Bruja by Jenifer Levin
  • See You in the Movies by Madelyn Arnold
  • Self-Deliverance by Elise D’Haene
• Past Times
  • The Woman Who Loved the Moon by Elizabeth A. Lynn
  • The Tale of the Kiss by Emma Donoghue
  • The Burning Times by Sara Maitland
  • The Catherine Trilogy: Catherine, True Natures, and Seven Miracles by Ingrid Macdonald
  • The Woman Who Came to Seek by Sigrid Nielsen
• Possibilities
  • Aria Nova by Patricia Duncker
  • The Dark House [from The Terrible Girls] by Rebecca Brown
  • The Triangular Eye: 1, 2, 3 by Aileen La Tourette
  • Did’Ja Ever Hear of a Goolieguy? by Anne Cameron
  • If Pigs Could Fly by Christine Crow
  • Love Alters by Tanith Lee