Back To The Queer Future #2: Dapper Style Dilemma

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You come around in a dark and cramped space, with fabric tickling your face. Momentarily panicked, you push your hands out and manage to open a door. You tumble out into what looks like a dressing room, with a large mirror propped on a table to one side and clothing and make-up scattered everywhere. You have no time to ponder the ramifications of being briefly trapped in the closet, because a butch woman barrels into the dressing room and hurriedly starts undressing. Oh my!

Unfortunately, this does not appear to be a romantic opportunity, as the woman starts grabbing random items of clothing to try on. She turns to you with a silent call for help in her eyes. The woman intr...

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Sally

Sally lives in the UK. Her work has been featured in a Korean magazine about queer people and their pets, and a book about haunted prisons. She never intended for any of this to happen.

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