Garden spiders are supposed to be helpful creatures that keep pests from harming garden plants. They should be able to create beautiful webs. Most importantly, they are to live in the garden. However, this little spider faces the uncertainty of life itself as she is the last of the spiderlings to emerge from the egg sac only to find that she has hatched in the eaves of the barn, too far from any garden for her tiny legs to travel. This little spider must find a way to survive alone in the eaves or find a garden of her own, before it is too late.

A marriage of mystery fiction and queer concerns, queer crime literature celebrates the pairing of the political and the sexual. Queer crime fiction is a subgenre in which sex, gender and sexuality are among the mysteries to be solved. Its writers use boundary-crossing identities and desires to express social critique, inviting readers to interpret queer narratives as literary incursions into cultural traditions. From androgynous investigators and serial killer housewives to closeted lesbians and transgendered lovers, the characters in queer mysteries are metaphors for changing social and...