Love in the Time of America

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LGBT Fiction, American Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Realism, and Short Stories

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Sex, Profanity, Violence, and Death

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Apr 21, 2026

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94 pages

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Love in the Time of America

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Blurb

Is love just another commodity?

Two teen boys infatuated with science fiction fall in love with each other at a summer camp in Pennsylvania in the 1950s. Hollywood superstar cowboy John Wayne kidnaps a Black infant. The daughter of a rightwing talkshow host is suddenly, woefully unwed and pregnant. And a young American man finds the woman of his dreams in a near-future Tokyo that's floating on balloons above the rising seas…

In these four stories and another, Americans from varying backgrounds and in different time periods all find themselves at the mercy of their need for love. But despite the paradisiacal promise of American liberty, each one of them finds that everything has a price…

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Genres

LGBT Fiction, American Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Realism, and Short Stories

Trigger Warnings

Sex, Profanity, Violence, and Death

Type of Ending

Series

Not part of a series

Author Prefers A Review On

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Number of days to read

Publication Date

Apr 21, 2026

Page Length

94 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

Born in Nebraska, but raised in Wilmington, Delaware, Matt Snee is a neurodivergent writer, painter, composer, and photographer. He has published multiple novels and poetry books, toured around the country in a band, and even worked as a movie theater projectionist. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his dog Molly.