These short stories explore the difficulties and pleasures of being a gay or lesbian Puerto Rican in a postmodern world, at times incorporating elements of science fiction, detectives, and
fantasy with characters who live in the present and future amid taboo topics like sadomasochism, transvestism, and prostitution. Their style is sometimes experimental or metaliterary, with
intertextual allusions to the work of other gay writers such as Manuel Ramos Otero and Manuel Puig. "Hilarious but vulnerable, over-the-top but deadly smart, Larry La Fountain-Stokes' stories
are songs of despair, joy, poignancy, and crazy optimism." -Achy Obejas, author of Memory Mambo
