Summer Love

Summer camp! It sounds romantic - catching someone's gaze while singing camp songs, watching the sun set from a shared canoe, but don't forget you'll need to survive camp food, cabin mates and awkward socials.

Logan just wants a summer where he can be anonymous and fit in without labels, but that all changes when he meets out-and-proud Dave at summer camp. M/M; Gay

Surface Tension, along with a lot of other great LGBTQI fiction, is available from Interlude Press at interludepress.com

You love the nitty gritty of real life and ballot boxes. But there's more to politics than the campaign. Sometimes a kid has to stand up for what he believes in, even when he doesn't know what that is yet.

A campaign volunteer is assigned to assist his high school’s Gay Straight Alliance for the Pride Parade, forcing him to face the students he had previously avoided, and the truth about himself. M/M; Gay, Queer

Beautiful Monsters, along with a lot of other great LGBTQI fiction, is available from Interlude Press at interludepress.com

Even in this day of snapchat and instagram, you understand the joy of a penpal! The epistolary story is a classic and for good reason, what better way to see inside someone's heart than through his own words.

In a letter to his best friend, a young gay man reminisces about their relationship. M/M; Gay, Straight

My Best Friend, along with a lot of other great LGBTQI fiction, is available from Interlude Press at interludepress.com

The people in these stories will never meet, but whether you're working in a grocery store in the 1940s or a beachside snack bar in the present day, you know there's always a chance you'll find love over the counter.

The Willow Weeps For Us (Suzey Ingold) At the dawn of World War II, Jack, the young son of a grocer, falls for a charming piano teacher. M/M; Gay, Bisexual

The Most Handsome (S.J. Martin) Carter, a Cape Cod boy who recently came out as transgender, meets and falls in love with a college student visiting for the summer. M/M; Transgender, Gay

The Willow Weeps For Us and The Most Handsome, along with a lot of other great LGBTQI fiction, are available from Interlude Press at interludepress.com

Whether it's a present day art school or a carnival in the 1950s, it's hard for you to go past the allure of a creative woman, or two, or four.

What the Heart Wants (Naomi Tajedler) A young student discovers attraction and desire through her experience drawing figures in a summer art class. F/F; Lesbian, Pansexual

The Fire Eater's Daughter (Amy Stilgenbauer) When a traveling carnival comes back to town, Ruth must choose between caring for her mother and a life with the beautiful and mysterious Constance, the fire eater’s daughter. F/F; Lesbian

What the Heart Wants and The Fire Eater's Daughter, along with a lot of other great LGBTQI fiction, are available from Interlude Press at interludepress.com

You know a little something about pain, but you also know that a little music (and maybe some time on the beach with that special someone) can heal even the toughest wounds.

Something Like Freedom (Caroline Hanlin): After he is kicked out of his family home, Gabe experiences freedom for the first time in his life, thanks in part to a new friend. M/M; Gay, Bisexual

On the Shore (Rachel Blackburn): Poppy retreats to her parents’ beach house to nurse a broken heart, but instead meets the vivacious Eva, who helps her find joy again. F/F; Lesbian

Something Like Freedom and On The Shore, along with a lot of other great LGBTQI fiction, are available from Interlude Press at interludepress.com