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Luke Dani Blue's stories have appeared in the Colorado Review, Crab Orchard Review, and have been included on the list of the year's most distinguished stories in Best American Short Stories 2016. Originally from Michigan, Luke Dani Blue (they/them) is a two-time college dropout and time-traveling Victorian invalid who resides most reliably on the internet. They are also an astrologer. This is their first book.
Luke Dani Blue defies every expectation in these ten ravishing, razor-wired tales about transition. These characters hang between genders, between stations, in the future of ten minutes from now--stuck in some essential way and struggling for a way forward. In Pretend It's My Body, everything is possible, and yet, life in the flesh proves maddeningly resistant to the pressure of individual desire. --Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander Pretend It's My Body is a wonderful collection, capable and sure-footed as a pace-setter, and at once funny, jarring, disorienting, and bracing in turn, like trying to use a credit card at a carnival. Unrushed, but with a real center; each story distinct yet kind, afraid neither of ugliness nor loveliness. I liked it marvelously well. --Daniel Lavery, author of The Merry Spinster
