Short Story Archives - The Queer Armenian Library

Tea Leaves by Jacob Budenz

Published in 2023, Tea Leaves by Jacob Budenz is a short story collection exalting and lampooning the queer experience while examining the sometimes surreal obstacles of marginalization. Jacob Budenz is a queer writer,…

The Roach by René Zadoorian

Published in 1990, In My Father’s Car by George Stambolian is one of the first, if not the first [*], short stories written about and by a gay Armenian-American.
Stambolian published the story in his Men on Men: Best New Fiction series.

First Light at Dawn by Nyri A. Bakkalian

Published in 2017, First Light at Dawn by Nyri A. Bakkalian is a short story about a trans woman fighter pilot who is navigating both her transition and PTSD. It is notable…