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On Nakharat, every contract is a ribbon and every ribbon is a secret.
On Nakharat, every contract is a ribbon and every ribbon is a secret, braided tight and tucked behind a veil. Artificial intelligence threatens the tightly-woven network. Stability depends on giving each machine a human conscience--but the humans are not volunteers. In the midst of strife, individual people struggle to hold onto their jobs and protect their lovers, those trusted few who could draw back the veil.
Part of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series.
A deathly magic. An arranged marriage. A curse in the blood.
In the glittering city state of Volun, Lorelei Steddart never thought she'd be anything but an office drone--until her family all die under mysterious and likely magical circumstances, leaving her to inherit everything. To figure out what's happened, her uncle marries her off to the city state's top War Alchemist, Nephele Corisande, an intimidating older woman who might just be able to save her.
But what starts as a marriage of pure convenience becomes something deeper. Soon Lorelei and Nephele must untangle a terrible magic that has metastasized into something new and unstable, born in Lorelei's blood.
Part of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series.
Pure goth. --Leigh Harlen, author of Queens of Noise and Blood Like Garnets
The stories in this collection of dark fantasy and horror short stories grapple with the complexities of identity, racism, homophobia, immigration, oppression and patriarchy through nature, gothic hauntings, Trinidadian folklore and shape shifting. At the heart of the collection lie the questions: how do we learn to accept ourselves? How do we live in our own skin?
Includes the stories:
In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We Offer You Tonight tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious House. Jewel's world is shaken when her friend is murdered by a client, but somehow comes back to life. To get revenge, they will both have to confront the limits of loyalty, guilt, and justice.
And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed is a dystopian thriller with a breathless, unique voice.
Fracture
our metacarpals
on clutched pearls
An anthology of gothic depravity, horror & perversion. It contains queer horrors both psychological and supernatural, gory and cerebral.
The Crawling Moon contains work from:
Sage Agee
Bendi Barrett
Winifred Burton
Amelia Burton
Jess Cho
Lyndall Clipstone
Donyae Coles
Dare Segun Falowo
Caro Jansen
Yeonsoo Kim
Marianne Kirby
M.L. Krishnan
Jes Malitoris
Chris McCartney
KC Mead-Brewer
Suzan Palumbo
Hailey Piper
E. Saxey
Jordan Shiveley
Caitlin Starling
Natalia Theodoridou
v.f. thompson
E. Catherine Tobler
Shaoni C. White
Cynthia Zhang
Tina Zhu
We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, edited by series editor Charles Payseur and guest editor C.L. Clark, showcases sixteen queer science fiction, fantasy and horror short stories published in a difficult year.
Within these pages: A trans woman growing plums on a distant moon. Queer shape shifters falling in love despite brutal intolerance. Video game urban legends. Magic onions. Art history. Archaeology. The tropes of classic movies dashed and subverted. The fragile freedom found in online gaming. True crime podcasts. A non-binary house who refused to eat children.
We're honored to amplify these incredible stories for a wider audience.
Contributors: Charlie Jane Anders, Anya Johanna DeNiro, Innocent Chizaram Ilo, Gem Isherwood, L.D. Lewis, Naomi Kanakia, Gwen C. Katz, Kristen Koopman, RB Lemberg, Lina Rather, Nicasio Andres Reed, Gabriela Santiago, Waverly SM, Carlie St. George, Brendan Williams-Childs, & John Wiswell.
A vampire story that twists and turns from New York to West Africa and back.
When schoolteacher Cynthia gets a tattoo at a block party in 1991 Flatbush, she doesn't realize she's embarking on a life-changing romance with an immortal Ghanaian vampire. Cynthia's affair with Safoa weaves together stories from nineteenth century Ghana, late twentieth century New York and a near future reality in Maryland that defies the utopian/dystopian binary.
Part of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series.
Plagued by the creeping loss of her memory, diplomat Bréone Hemmerli continues to negotiate peace in an increasingly climate-devastated world. The Necessity of Stars brings the alien Tura to Bréone's Normandy garden, a place removed from the world's ruin. Within the garden's shadows, Tura will show Bréone a way forward, even if she can't remember it.
The Necessity of Starsby E. Catherine Tobler is a thoughtful tale of memory loss, politics and climate change.
In & This is How to Stay Alive by Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Nyokabi's world unravels after her brother Baraka's death by suicide. When an eccentric auntie gives Nyokabi a potion that sends her back in time to when Baraka was still alive, it becomes her only goal to keep him that way. Nyokabi learns that storytellers may be the carriers of time, but defying the past comes with its own repercussions.
Praise:
A beautiful and rending look at family, loss, and grief, all while sharply dissecting time travel tropes and delivering a powerful message about memory, storytelling, and responsibility. It's a story that hurts in the best of ways, confronting death and healing without losing its sense of humor or its impulse for rebellion.
--Charles Payseur, author of The Burning Day and Other Stories
& This is How to Stay Alive is a powerful manual for recovering from grief, exploring intergenerational trauma, and traveling through time. Kagunda's prose is intense and relatable; you'll feel like you're jumping through time with these characters. The perfect read for anyone and everyone.
--Eboni Dunbar, author of Stone and Steel
Highly inventive and brilliantly crafted. Kagunda pushes the envelope in this exceptional novella, playing with time and form as she explores grief and the drama of the human condition.
--Tendai Huchu, author of The Hairdresser of Harare
Rich with the beauty and harshness of life.
--Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Friday Black
This anthology includes the third year of speculative flash fiction with a queer bent from Baffling Magazine. Foreword by Aun-Juli Riddle.
Stories from: Lina Rather, Marisca Pichette, E. Catherine Tobler, Portia Elan, K.S. Walker, Tamara Jerée, Alice Pow, Nikolas Sky, December Cuccaro, Aimee Ogden, Matt Terl, R.S. Saha, Elou Carroll, Lindz McLeod, Wen-yi Lee, A. Tony Jerome, Ann LeBlanc, Tarver Nova, M.P. Rosalia, Sharang Biswas, Phoebe Barton, Aigner Loren Wilson, S.M. Hallow, Anneke Schwob, Mary Sanche, Megan Baffoe, Akira Leong, Tianran Li-Harkness, Derek Des Anges & Bastian Hart. Cover illustration by Carly A-F.
Praise for Baffling Year One: There are no false notes in this strange and dazzling anthology of 26 queer, speculative stories, selected from the first year of Baffling Magazine-which is particularly impressive given the wide range of tone, subject matter, and subgenre. -Publishers Weekly
Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die is an anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction centering queer joy and community in the face of disaster. What does hope look like when everything is lost? Now, more than ever, we need to revel in the bright spots amidst the darkness.
The twenty-three stories (and two poems) contained here, as well as the roleplaying game Dream Askew by Avery Alder, imagine queer community in myriad futures interrupted by collapse. Post-apocalyptic futures glittering and bleak, challenging and eerie. Glitter + Ashes is here to hold up a torch. Come gather round the fire.
Three days after I was expelled from the Marable School for Girls, our poor Simon arrived.
In the 1920s gothic comedy Uncommon Charm, bright young socialite Julia and shy Jewish magician Simon decide they aren't beholden to their families' unhappy history. Together they confront such horrors as murdered ghosts, alive children, magic philosophy, a milieu that slides far too easily into surrealist metaphor, and, worst of all, serious adult conversation.
Part of Neon Hemlock's 2022 Novella Series.
Show me a city of walls, and I'll show you a city of tunnels.
Snow Kidama speaks to ghosts amongst the local gangs of Charybdis Precinct, isolated from the rest of New Arcadia by the city's ancient walls. But when his old lover, Gem--a man he thought dead--shows up in need of his services, Snow is forced to reevaluate everything. Snow and Gem must navigate not only their feelings for each other, but a political plot bigger than both of them and a drug-ridden city on the edge of collapse.
Part of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series.
Vade is an anarchist, a Phantom Dragon. Althus is a Touchstone--an Imperial agent.
Their love was never meant to survive.
In a world of magical empires and the anarchists that would tear them down, A Necessary Chaos is the story of Althus and Vade, assigned to spy on the other by opposing sides. But now that they've both caught feelings, where will their loyalties fall? They must each decide if they'll follow orders or find a way to make their romance thrive beyond the lies.
Part of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series.
Since 2020, the We're Here series has combed speculative short fiction markets for the finest queer writing with an eye for celebrating work that spans the breadth of the field. The 2023 edition, edited by Darcie Little Badger, is no exception.
Featuring the work of: Ash Arya, Z. K. Abraham, Sharang Biswas, Nkone Chaka, Eliza Chan, Kwame Sound Daniels, Maria Dong, Carson Faust, Tessa Fisher, Ana Hurtado, S. M. Hallow, Sean Robinson, Tehnuka & Regina Kanyu Wang (translated by Rebecca F. Kuang).
This second volume in Neon Hemlock's yearly series celebrating the wonder and breadth of queer speculative fiction contains stories of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and many spaces in between. Edited by LD Lewis and series editor Charles Payseur.
Enjoy stories from C.L. Clark, H. Pueyo, Aliette de Bodard, Watson Neith, Sam J. Miller, Laurel Beckley, Alexandra Seidel, LA Knight, Bogi Takács, Fargo Tbakhi, Ann LeBlanc, Cheri Kamei, Sharang Biswas, Jen Brown & Shingai Njeri Kagunda.
Praise for the previous volume, We're Here 2020: This promising start to a new anthology series will appeal to any reader of contemporary short SFF, queer or otherwise, and reinforces Neon Hemlock's spot at the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing. --Publishers Weekly
Let the Mountains Be My Grave unfolds at breakneck pace in 1944 Italy, where partisan Veleno thinks of nothing but killing as many Nazis as he can before leaving this world. Beloved by the ancient Italic goddess Angitia, Veleno is the perfect person to recover a strange weapon the Nazis are planning to use against the Allies in the battle of Montecassino, but doing so may force him to confront his death differently than he expects.
Part of the 2022 Neon Hemlock Novella Series.
In her debut collection, Izzy Wasserstein pries the lid off fourteen different worlds from an already impressive short fiction career. In these pages, you'll meet ne'er-do-wells and orphans, investigators and revolutionaries, diplomats and doctoral students. Wasserstein has a gift for putting her finger on the meaty parts of grief, the catalysts of change, and the pain points of community.
This collection contains fourteen stories, two of which have never been seen before! Case of the Soane Museum Thefts unveils a crime of magical curation for its protagonist to puzzle over, while Blades, Stones, and the Weight of Centuries brings us the heir to an empire poised at the threshold of change.
