Description

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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.

About the Author

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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).

Praise For…

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“This collection is as uncategorizable as the forms of queer evil that haunt it. Apocrypha for teen pop stars, meet cutes for phantoms-next-door, desires that once uttered, reshape the world: Don’t Make Me Do Something We’ll Both Regret is a glitter ball only Tim Jones-Yelvington can spin. The voice of this book will never leave you.” —Daniel Allen Cox, author of Mouthquake

“This book is a confrontation. It makes direct eye contact and then there’s no looking away. I laughed so much, with joy and wonder and fear. God, I loved every bit of it.” —Jac Jemc, author of Total Work of Art and False Bingo

“If Edgar Allan Poe and Dennis Cooper had a child who wrote fanfiction about boy bands, teen dramas, and memes, they’d write something like Don’t Make Me Do Something We’ll Both Regret. Subversive, outrageous, and smart—Tim Jones-Yelvington is one of the most exciting writers working today.” —Eric Nguyen, author of Things We Lost to the Water

"This collection of dizzying and dazzling dystopian fairytales propels the reader through a sexually intriguing, violent, shy, erudite, and disingenuous mind—think Glee Club and High School Musical meet American Psycho." —Elizabeth Smith, Necessary Fiction

"This collection of dizzying and dazzling dystopian fairytales propels the reader through a sexually intriguing, violent, shy, erudite, and disingenuous mind—think Glee Club and High School Musical meet American Psycho." —Elizabeth Smith, Necessary Fiction
— Elizabeth Smith