Autorentext

Alice Stoehr is a writer and bookseller living in Minneapolis. She has self-published four books of short fiction.

Klappentext

Cult author Alice Stoehr’s debut short fiction collection about the messy, intersecting lives of a community of Midwestern trans women.  
 Again, Harder gathers the uncompromising short fiction of Alice Stoehr, which investigates the inner lives, evolving relationships, and often violent marginalization of a community of trans women in a large Midwestern town. 
 In these stories, a commune of trans separatists seduces a suicidal writer. An obsessive TERF and the trans woman she’s fixated on circle one another with building intensity. Polyamorous triads bloom and wilt, hookup app messages fly, friends sit for post-surgical care, and women fall to the toxic allure of Dorothy Lipko, the worst ex-girlfriend you have ever known. 
 Among this, there is regret, there is poverty, there is depression and sexual anxiety and despair; there is also fleeting, shared joy. Again, Harder is the sardonic heartbeat of a new generation of American trans women.

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Table of Contents

• “Downer, Dancing”
• “Persica”
• “Real Life Tests”
• “Care & Support”
• “Nascency”
• “Tendril Lullaby”
• “A Place Where People Raise Their Kids”
• “Is There Anything More Than Sex?”
• “mr. skv”
• “Bodies Made of $$$”
• “So Let Us Yield to Love”
• “The Gate & Its Keeping”
• “THE BÆDLINGS”
• “18M 28F”
• “Damsels (In the Abyss)”
• “Tastes Like Teen Spiro”
• “Homo Dystopia”
• “C’mon Fucking Bitch Again”
• “Acheful East”
• “Cats of Hate”
• “A Tawdry Passion”
• “Beyond Love or Family”