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Jason A. Bartles’s story “Leiprenese 101” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 21 May 2021. Burnout. Achievement culture. The trivial matters that become blood feuds among academics. Administrators who rebrand the defunding of public education as a meritocracy. These are just some of the things that had been weighing on my mind going into 2020. If there’s a very small silver lining to be found amidst the ineptitude and indifference toward human suffering that has …

A question for Jason A. Bartles

Q: What is your favorite fairy tale and why?

A: Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub! What’s not to like about that? Okay, I suppose that’s cheating. It’s a nursery rhyme, not a fairy tale, technically speaking, but since this answer doesn’t have to go through peer review, I’m sticking with it. Though the lyrics have changed over the centuries, I can’t help but hear it as a quintessential queer image hiding in plain sight, and it always makes me wonder: Who are these gents? Why are they floating out to sea? Just how big is that tub? And importantly, is there room for one more?

Jason A. Bartles’s story “Leiprenese 101”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 21 May 2021.
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About Jason A. Bartles

Jason A. Bartles, originally from West Virginia, now calls Philadelphia home. He lives with his husband and two dogs, a blue-eyed husky and a pit-mix who will lick your face off. He teaches Latin American literature and Spanish at a regional university, but he promises his stories are entirely fictional.

jasonabartles.wordpress.com, @jabartles

Jason A. Bartles’s story “Leiprenese 101”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 21 May 2021.
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