Kraków Melt by Daniel Allen Cox

By Daniel Allen Cox

Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award and Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction, this novel by way of Daniel Allen Cox (Shuck; Basement of Wolves) is an incendiary tale approximately pyromaniacs who struggle homophobia in Krakow, one of many fronts of the Solidarnosc revolution. it truly is 2005 and Poland's ethical main issue escalates as Pope John Paul II methods loss of life whereas the country's president makes homophobic declarations. Radek is a bisexual artist confident that fireplace is the good stabilizer; he meets Dorota, literature scholar and budding pyromaniac. pushed by means of rage and sexual interest, they greenback Church, executive, and the LGBT group to discover sexual freedom, escaping their enemies via scaling the crumbling partitions and ideas of the city.

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude never flew together, so that if one died in a plane crash, the other could carry on with their work. They remodelled Germany more than once. In 1995, they petitioned the 662 parliamentary delegates who had offices in the Berlin Reichstag, writing personalized letters and making phone calls asking for permission to wrap the building in “fireproof” polypropylene fabric. The delegates acquiesced after a seventy-minute debate on the parliament floor, and then Christo and Jeanne-Claude, with the help of hundreds of workers, threw a giant condom over them.

When we had finished the first word, Dorota laughed like a crazy abka and hugged me close, pressing her mouth to my neck. I was about to put her into a playful headlock, but she grabbed my hand and ran. We tore through the obstacle course of nagrobeks, tripping over ivy tentacles and kicking flower planters like footballs, blind in the dark but headed, our ankles told us, toward higher ground. We were sinning, and it was delicious. We turned around to see Helena’s grave, lit up prettily by Dorota’s imagination and my steady hand: SUCK THIS DEVIANT COCK IN THE INTERMISSION Cemeteries usually only saw mass candle activity on All Souls’ Day, a compulsive keening for the dead you might recognize as Halloween.

Besides, I have no idea how to apply parkour philosophies in my life, the sign of a true practitioner. Être et durer: to be and to last. Most days, this seems like an impossible task. CHICAGO This miniature construction project seemed easy at first, but the tiny details are ballooning out of proportion. There’s no way I can replicate the 17,500 buildings that burned in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. 5-metre plywood foundation that’s forcing me to pick and choose between apothecary, blacksmith, and barber shops.

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