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The Black Queen (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)

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McCrae and Hughes are a male couple who have been living together for ten years. They are fastidious men and proud of their life together in their old colonial house surrounded by a pale blue picket fence. Although their neighborhood has undergone radical change over the decade, becoming a transient area with a multicultural population, McCrae and Hughes are acutely conscious of the significance of their elegant old house and lifestyle: “It gave them an embattled sense of holding on to something important, a tattered remnant of good taste in an area of waste overrun...

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