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Shut Up, I Love You, I'll Call You Tomorrow: Stories
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Expected 10 Nov 26Vivid stories of hard-partying Chicago trans women in the 2020s—right here, right now
"Sloane Murphy shows why fun is fun, honesty hurts, and friendships are heartbreak."
—Alice Stoehr, author of Again, Harder
Agnes can’t deal with the coke and the whiskey. Joan’s been getting a little success, it’s not really working out for her. Sybil’s still insane, I saw her last week at the bars, she was screaming at Sara. Maybe actually someone screamed at her when she tried to make fun of Clara for not shaving her eyebrows correctly. It was just before she got hit by that car. Jenny and Joan had to pick her up from Thorek Memorial. Freddie’s still Freddie, but I heard her mom showed up at some point. Just on her doorstep. Orla and Kate finally got around to dating. They broke up though. Carolina? Well she got that job with the Sanitation department, and she hasn’t really been around since.
In this crackling collection of stories, Sloane Murphy shows a beautiful and wrecked scene of young Chicago trans women. With the clairvoyance of Michelle Tea and the precision of Raymond Carver, Shut Up, I Love You, I’ll Call You Tomorrow is a conduit of bleary electricity inside a stubborn, still-beating heart.
"Sloane Murphy shows why fun is fun, honesty hurts, and friendships are heartbreak."
—Alice Stoehr, author of Again, Harder
Agnes can’t deal with the coke and the whiskey. Joan’s been getting a little success, it’s not really working out for her. Sybil’s still insane, I saw her last week at the bars, she was screaming at Sara. Maybe actually someone screamed at her when she tried to make fun of Clara for not shaving her eyebrows correctly. It was just before she got hit by that car. Jenny and Joan had to pick her up from Thorek Memorial. Freddie’s still Freddie, but I heard her mom showed up at some point. Just on her doorstep. Orla and Kate finally got around to dating. They broke up though. Carolina? Well she got that job with the Sanitation department, and she hasn’t really been around since.
In this crackling collection of stories, Sloane Murphy shows a beautiful and wrecked scene of young Chicago trans women. With the clairvoyance of Michelle Tea and the precision of Raymond Carver, Shut Up, I Love You, I’ll Call You Tomorrow is a conduit of bleary electricity inside a stubborn, still-beating heart.
136 pages, Paperback
Expected publication November 10, 2026
About the author
Sloane Murphy
41 books896 followersSloane Murphy is a writer, dreamer, fur mom and crime documentary addict who has developed an unhealthy appreciation for cheesy YA Films, cupcakes and bad pop music. She adores fairy tales, ballet and all things supernatural, drinks far too much coffee, and watches an ungodly amount of Netflix.
She loves to write dark, paranormal/fantasy romance and characters who will shatter your heart. Characters who enjoy stomping on the pieces and then laugh before putting you back together again. And she definitely doesn't enjoy readers tears. Nope. Not even a little.
If you want to keep up to date with all things Sloane, including where her next book is out, please join her mailing list. You can sign up on her website. www.authorsloanemurphy.com
She loves to write dark, paranormal/fantasy romance and characters who will shatter your heart. Characters who enjoy stomping on the pieces and then laugh before putting you back together again. And she definitely doesn't enjoy readers tears. Nope. Not even a little.
If you want to keep up to date with all things Sloane, including where her next book is out, please join her mailing list. You can sign up on her website. www.authorsloanemurphy.com
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Review of advance copy
This is such a wonderful collection of short stories. Because all the stories revolve around the same group of trans women in Chicago, by the end of the book you really feel like they're all your friends, too. I enjoyed getting so many different types of POVs: the girls who have been around the scene and their group of friends for years, newbies, girls who are visiting, a parent. Each new POV honed in on the details of one or two girls, but also gave new opinions and observations on others which fleshed everyone in the entire book out. The characters just felt so real! I also as someone living in Chicago I enjoyed reading it and being able to say "Oh I've been there, oh I know where that is!" about a lot of the locations mentioned in this book. This is a quick, fun, emotional read. These girls felt like I could run into them on the street, like I knew versions of them in real life.
Advance review copy received at American Library Association conference.
Advance review copy received at American Library Association conference.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
sisters are rly doing it 4 themselves
Lots of fabulous idiosyncratic characters make up the Greek chorus of SUILYICYT. I'm endeared by the true to life depiction of what it feels like to be ensnared in the quixotic web of a trans community.
Feels like I know these girls, and honestly, I might. I love Chicago(land) and I love transgender. Thank you Sloane Murphy for putting pen to paper and thank you littlepuss press for sending this message to the universe!
Lots of fabulous idiosyncratic characters make up the Greek chorus of SUILYICYT. I'm endeared by the true to life depiction of what it feels like to be ensnared in the quixotic web of a trans community.
Feels like I know these girls, and honestly, I might. I love Chicago(land) and I love transgender. Thank you Sloane Murphy for putting pen to paper and thank you littlepuss press for sending this message to the universe!
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