when e.m. forster said “a happy ending was imperative […] I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows”, and when mart crowley wrote “not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story”, and when joan tierney wrote “that was the rule / you can have your love like a bullet in the chest / you can have their heart but only if it stops beating”



















