Ten years ago the first collection of gay stories by a british writer was published. Undo Your Raincoat's and Laugh by Peter Robins. It was notable for a perceptive wit that has continued to inform his work. Summer Shorts - Robins' fourth collection - explores the realities of life for gay men in the harsher light of the late nineteen eighties. These stories are people with those who look back to days before AIDS overshadowed us and with young men who now confront the challenge of their first relationships.
Have you no consideration --
As I remember --
It'll be possible --
What about Athens? --
No man's runner --
Passing --
Country pursuits --
Echoes --
Connaught circle --
London journal --
Victory --
Nearly perfect --
Reviewing a landscape.
