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JOSEPH ALLEN BOONE’S debut novel, Furnace Creek, is a contemporary queering of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations in which the author transposes key elements of the classic narrative to 20th-century America, centering the story upon a gay stand-in for the more conventional Pip. Boone, a professor of English and gender studies at USC, clearly knows whereof he speaks. In such scholarly works as Tradition Counter Tradition, Libidinal Currents and The Homoerotics of Orientalism, Boone displays a wide-ranging understanding of the novel and how it reflects—and sometimes influences—social codes around gender and sexuality.

Furnace Creek opens in the 1960s when its protagonist and narrator, Newt Seward, is a teenager living a fairly sheltered life in Virginia. We first meet Newt when he’s lying beside the eponymous creek satisfying himself (as adolescent boys free of Victorian literary constraints are wont to do) and is suddenly confronted by Zithra Jackson, a former maid and recently escaped convict who blackmails him into aiding her flight.

Furnace Creek, it turns out, is named for a stone oven where Confederate bullets were forged. Boone thus turns the reader’s attentio

We'll be donating $10 for every sale of Pride Pip to the Indicate Foundation to aid their work in empowering lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual, transgender, and queer students in achieving their academic and leadership goals.

The Collectible

Pip’s here, and she’s here for hugs! Our tiny headed rotund best friend makes her Youtooz debut at 3.9” giant and 3.7” expansive , truly the most favorable hugging dimensions! She sports the most welcoming smile while her tiny chief sits atop her wide bod. Her big floppy arms perfectly frame his body while her chunky legs maintain her stood lofty and ready. On her belly is a large circular rainbow flag. The exterior of her packaging shows the lovely Tiny Headed kingdom with a castle nestled among rolling green hills under a attractive warm rainbow sunrise. While the interior shows the Tiny Headed cast on a rainbow background. The protective sleeve Pip’s friends happily gathered around, ready to hug! This collectible ships in a matte, embossed, protective outer sleeve and a custom sized plastic protector for maximum protection during shipping.

About Tiny Headed Kingdom

Nobody knows for certain where the Tiny Headed Kingdom lies. Is it far beyond the seas? Just ove

Packs comprise 40 ingredients, some of which need to be printed, pinched, stuck together and folded before precision packed into a Publish In Proportion (PIP) pack (PAC) mailing box. Uniquely, some contents are colour-coded to reduce the sharing and transmission of blood-borne infections (BBVs), including HIV and Hepatitis C.

Discretely packaged and posted, single 2nd and 1st class packs fit through accepted letterboxes. We would love to present PIP PAC away for free, but it is not subsidised or receives government or grant funding. It is produced not-for-profit to give you the best value doable.

From June 2025, packs are £8.52 each, a go up of £1.23 (from £7.29) to join an increase in print costs. 

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    I had to read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens for my AP English class, and while reading it, I noticed that Pip and Herbert’s friendship is awfully close. Suspiciously close. At times, they seem so enamored with each other that I could draw no other decision than that they like each other as more than friends. So, I compiled a list of quotations, in chronological organize, that serve as sufficient proof that Pip and Herbert are totally gay for each other.

    “Herbert was my intimate companion and friend” (194).

    “‘Herbert,’ said I, laying my hand upon his knee” (237).

    “‘Now, Handel,’ Herbert replied, in his gay hopeful way” (239).

    “I had a great affection for him” (284).

    “Day by day as his hopes grew stronger and his face brighter, he must have thought me a more and more affectionate friend, for I had the greatest difficulty in restraining my tears of triumph when I saw him so happy” (287-288).

    “Of course I broke down there; and of course Herbert, beyond seizing a warm grip of my hand, pretended not to know it” (327).

    “Herbert got up, linked his arm