Short stories
Personal Attention Roleplay
- Publisher
- Metonymy Press
- Published
- November 23, 2021
- Pages
- 216
- Price
- $18.95
- ISBN
- 9781777485214
- Language
- English
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The team behind the book
- Cover
- Marigold Santos
- Design
- LOKI
A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother. A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships—with a slippery anarchist lover and an idiosyncratic meals-on-wheels recipient. A queer metal band’s summer tour unravels amid the sticky heat of the Northeastern US. A codependent listicle writer becomes obsessed with a Japanese ASMR channel.
The stories in Personal Attention Roleplay are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and the pitfalls of intimacy. Taking place in Montreal, Toronto, and elsewhere, they feature young Asian misfits struggling with the desire to see themselves reflected—in their surroundings, in others, online. Chau Bradley’s precise language and investigation of our more troubling motivations stand out in this wryly funny debut, through stories that hint at the uncanny while remaining grounded in the everyday.
Description from the publisher Metonymy Press, seen in October 2026 · Source ↗
Also by H Felix Chau Bradley
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Sharp Pink Claws Kai Cheng Thom, Trish Salah, Kama La Mackerel, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, Grace Kwan, Hazel Jane Plante, Shanice Nicole, jiaqing wilson-yang, H Felix Chau Bradley, Markus Harwood-Jones, Valérie Bah
From Metonymy Press
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The Sacred Heart Motel Grace Kwan
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The Rage Letters Valérie Bah
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LOTE Shola von Reinhold
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The Good Arabs Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
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A Natural History of Transition Callum Angus
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ZOM-FAM Kama La Mackerel
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Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) Hazel Jane Plante
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nîtisânak Jas M. Morgan
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Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 Trish Salah
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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars Kai Cheng Thom
