So they do and the party’s going on till dawn.
Joanne and Andrew haul me up to bed eventually, while it’s all still going on. Through the floorboards I can hear Jane belting out ‘I Will Survive’ and then ‘Agadoo’ with Nesta and then she comes up with Fran to check on me and I’ve been sick on me dressing table.
Apparently, before I fell asleep, I was crying and saying that I wanted Eric—me bloody boss!—inside me again like he was when I was seventeen and he was twelve.
I’d never say that unless I was paralytic, and I reckon I was because I never made it to the shop for work the next morning.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PAUL MAGRS lives and writes in Manchester. In a twenty-odd year writing career he has published novels in every genre from Literary to Gothic Mystery to Science Fiction. His most recent books are The Martian Girl (Firefly Press) and Fellowship of Ink (Snowbooks.) He has taught Creative Writing at both the University of East Anglia and Manchester Metropolitan University, and now writes full time.
MORE BY PAUL MAGRS FROM LETHE PRESS
DOES IT SHOW?
Meet: Penny Robinson who’s a sixteen year old with witchy powers and an impossibly glamorous and overbearing mother called Liz. They’ve just moved into the neighbourhood and the friendships they make will start off a bizarre chain of events involving love affairs with hunky bus drivers, people dressing up as dogs, raucous nights out with the ladies and a very surprising revelation on the dance floor during Goth Night in Darlington...
COULD IT BE MAGIC?
Meet: Andy, a young gay man who finds himself quite unexpectedly pregnant. Andy runs away to Edinburgh to sample the delights of the wicked city and to give birth to a child of his own: one covered in golden leopard fur…
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FANCY MAN
The never-before-published ‘lost’ novel that continues in the same inimitable style of Phoenix Court.
Meet: Wendy, who grows up the youngest of three brash sisters in Blackpool and who leaves home when her mother dies. She moves to Edinburgh under the wing of her vulgar Aunty Anne, whose sights are set on the millions her ex-husband has recently won on the lottery. Wendy spends a happy summer finding herself amongst her new family: Uncle Pat, frail cousin Colin, Captain Simon and Belinda, who believes herself to be an alien abductee.
Published by LETHE PRESS
118 Heritage Ave, Maple Shade, NJ 08052
lethepressbooks.com
Originally published by Vintage in 1996
Copyright © 1996, 2017 Paul Magrs
Introduction © 2017 Paul Magrs
‘Patient Iris’ first published in New Writing 4
‘Judith’s Do Round Hers’ first published in Playing Out
ISBN: 9781590215258
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Magrs, Paul, 1969- author.
Title: Marked for life / Paul Magrs.
Description: Maple Shade, NJ : Lethe Press, 2017. | Series: The Phoenix Court
; Book 1
Identifiers: LCCN 2017000828 | ISBN 9781590215258 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Gay men--Fiction. | Lesbians--Fiction. | Tattooed
people--Fiction. | England, Northern--Fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6063.A3313 M37 2017 | DDC 823/.914--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017000828
Author photo by
CLAIR MACNAMEE
Cover and interior design
by INKSPIRAL DESIGN
