Don't Make Me Do Something We'll Both Regret: Stories

The stories in Don't Make Me Do Something We'll Both Regret are linked by their exploration of queer evil. The mystery of desire and sting of rejection drive a child to violence. Boys enter the forest, naive to what lurks within. A pack of pop stars-turned-lovers strike a terrible bargain to preserve their youth. Its characters are gnostics and mystics, ogres and queens whose defiance of the normative both liberates and confines.

Innovative Prose

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from "Tim Jones-Yelvington is a Pretty Little Liar"

My lovelies, I haven't forgotten your secrets. Everything each of you told me in confidence. You said, Promise you'll keep this to yourself. You said, Promise you'll never tell a soul. You said, If anyone finds out, my life is over! I said, I'll take it to the grave. Once, I came upon our frienemy in the marketplace. I said, I know what you've been up to! Don't pretend your hemline's clean! And she begged me, Keep your voice down! Don't make me do something we'll both regret. This is the new new me. Black feathered collar, black feathered cuffs, gold-threaded jacket, my shoulder plumage spills. I am a peacock. My chin is cocked. I am a libertine. I am a dandy. I am an emu, ready to stretch my neck. To sharpen my beak.

Author: Tim Jones-Yelvington
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 08/01/2022
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.83w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9781680032482
ISBN10: 1680032488
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | General
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)

About the Author
TIM JONES-YELVINGTON is the author of the fiction volumes This is a Dance Movie! (Tiny Hardcore Press), Strike a Prose: Memoirs of a Lit Diva Extraordinaire (co-im-press), and Evan's House and the Other Boys Who Live There (Rose Metal Press), and the poetry volumes Become on Yr Face (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press) and Colton Behavioral Therapy (Gazing Grain Press).