{"product_id":"the-orchid-stories","title":"The Orchid Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt was in August I discovered the “Debs” white orchid, across the river from Hode, in its twin city, Spode. Specifically, it was in the Clothing Wing of the Wealth Museum. Mummers and I were standing in front of ferns painted white, with sleeping Mayan faces sort of floating among them—three-dimensional—decorating the three sides of an exhibit, a replica of a prison cell. A naked lightbulb hung from the ceiling, swaying slightly, as if someone has just jostled it. A gaunt mannequin with sagging shoulders and a creased forehead lay on the middle tier of a triple tiered bunk. He was lying with a mackintosh draped over him, like a blanket. Identical mackintoshes lay on the top and bottom tiers. I noticed a label, in the exhibit itself, pasted on the right of the bunk, crudely lettered in pencil and signed by “Mother Bloor” […]\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA little-known classic of twentieth century queer literature and a masterpiece of eccentric detail, poet Kenward Elmslie’s only novel \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eOrchid Stories\u003c\/em\u003e presents us with interwoven stories as delicate and exquisite as the flowers for which they are named, conveying a dreamlike, otherworldly beauty. [publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith an afterword by Robert Glück \u0026lt;3\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pilot Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358203978068,"sku":"A8B-36068","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/kenord.jpg?v=1790814467","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/the-orchid-stories","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}