Blue Fingernails Stories | Uñas Píntadas de Azul Cuentos
by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Released: 2009
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is a writer, scholar, play-wright, and performer. He holds an AB from Harvard and an MA and Ph.D in Spanish from Columbia.
These short stories trace a Latin/o American poetic journey—a sensory pilgrimage through the pains and pleasures of diasporic, cosmopolitan gay and lesbian Puerto Rican identities in an ever-shifting, postmodern world. Set across urban landscapes throughout the Americas, the tales weave elements of science fiction, vampirism, detective fiction, and fantasy, yet remain grounded in the intense struggles of mad, passionate love and its inevitable unraveling.