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Courage summoned

uthor James Courage doesn’t get half the attention he deserves these days, which is quite surprising given the present zeitgeist’s relentless search for LGBTQIA heroes and recognition of the black dog of depression. There was a flurry of interest in the 1990s and 2000s, following Peter Wells and Rex Pilgrim’s 1997 anthology, .

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