In this shitty adventskalendar that’s my quest to read short stories through all of december, no story Today but a short, delightful nonfic article about stories
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https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-necessity-of-trans-joy/
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https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-necessity-of-trans-joy/
Uncanny Magazine
The Necessity of Trans Joy - Uncanny Magazine
I. A Note About Audience I think often about Charlie Jane Anders’s magnificent and heartbreaking story “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue.” As I read it, one of the story’s goals is to help cis people (that is, people whose gender matches the sex they were…
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❄️Five Reasons for the Sign Above Her Door, One of Them Unspoken❄️
by Izzy Wasserstein
🏳️🌈 rep: Trans author
One of the stories in yesterday’s article. This was well worth the read.
https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2020/06/five-reasons-for-the-sign-above-her-door-one-of-them-unspoken/
by Izzy Wasserstein
🏳️🌈 rep: Trans author
One of the stories in yesterday’s article. This was well worth the read.
https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2020/06/five-reasons-for-the-sign-above-her-door-one-of-them-unspoken/
✂️The Only Innocent Man✂️
by Julian K. Jarboe
🏳️🌈 rep: black MC, transmasc MC, nb author
For me, it tried to do too many things at once but, as it always happens with slate, the food for thought was delicious
https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/the-only-innocent-man-julian-k-jarboe.html
by Julian K. Jarboe
🏳️🌈 rep: black MC, transmasc MC, nb author
For me, it tried to do too many things at once but, as it always happens with slate, the food for thought was delicious
https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/the-only-innocent-man-julian-k-jarboe.html
Slate Magazine
What if Your Teenage Digital Past Came Back to Haunt You?
Read a new short story by Julian K. Jarboe, author of Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel.
🍳can i offer you a nice egg in this trying time🍳
by Iori Kusano
This is by the skin of my teeth, but I Made it in time.
Strange, a bit sad, a bit unfullfilling
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/can-i-offer-you-a-nice-egg-in-this-trying-time/
by Iori Kusano
This is by the skin of my teeth, but I Made it in time.
Strange, a bit sad, a bit unfullfilling
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/can-i-offer-you-a-nice-egg-in-this-trying-time/
Uncanny Magazine
can i offer you a nice egg in this trying time - Uncanny Magazine
Matt tells the waiter he’ll have his eggs over easy. They come back scrambled, a neat glistening pile framed by perfect triangles of toast, a lacy froth of hashbrowns lurking across the plate. He doesn’t notice he’s chosen to move until he’s already halfway…
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✨ SyncALife ✨
by Ruben Reyes Jr.
~6,600 words
CW: grief, domestic abuse, homophobia
🏳️🌈rep: bi MC, positive sex work representation
https://www.lightspeed magazine.com/fiction/syncalife/
by Ruben Reyes Jr.
~6,600 words
CW: grief, domestic abuse, homophobia
🏳️🌈rep: bi MC, positive sex work representation
https://www.lightspeed magazine.com/fiction/syncalife/
🐉THE DRAGON PROJECT🐉
by Naomi Kritzer
Kritzer’s work is always a delight
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_03_22/
by Naomi Kritzer
Kritzer’s work is always a delight
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_03_22/
Clarkesworld Magazine
The Dragon Project by Naomi Kritzer
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
🕰️ A Glossary of Psychological Terms Useful for People Trying to Change their Past 🕰️
by M. J. Pettit
Did you know a story could come
in the form of a glossary?
Sadly it was about time travel, which I loathe, so yeah, sometimes it’d be like dat
https://kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2022/a-glossary-of-psychological-terms-useful-for-people-trying-to-change-their-past-by-m-j-pettit/
by M. J. Pettit
Did you know a story could come
in the form of a glossary?
Sadly it was about time travel, which I loathe, so yeah, sometimes it’d be like dat
https://kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2022/a-glossary-of-psychological-terms-useful-for-people-trying-to-change-their-past-by-m-j-pettit/
🪺 Only When You Laugh 🪺
by Amanda Song
I know Nightmare is a horror magazine, but holy cow this was dark
https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/only-when-you-laugh/
by Amanda Song
I know Nightmare is a horror magazine, but holy cow this was dark
https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/only-when-you-laugh/
Nightmare Magazine
Only When You Laugh - Nightmare Magazine
Twenty-four hours to go. The Ultus Theater was all lit up, the marquee emblazoned with his name, glowing in the haze of the heavy rain. Laffing Farm Final Show: Mitch Williams! He chuckled to himself. Mitch, Mitch, born in a ditch . . . The last time he was…