Happy MerMay

Are you familiar with #MerMay? Officially, it's a mermaid-themed drawing challenge similar to #Inktober. For me this year, it's going to be an excuse to focus on various types of merfolk-related projects. I will be drawing to build up my amateur skills, but I'll also writing and posting work here through the month. My themes …

Seamen | Work in Progress

Is MerMay swimming along faster than expected, or is that just me? Either way, here's a flash fantasy I've been meaning to share. This is only a rough draft, so please don't get too attached to it. I will be building up the story more later. Accompanying artwork will be added when it's more than …

A Dragon’s Heart and Other Stories

Hello. 👋 This is an update about stories old and new. First off-- I want to apologize for the mess around here. My website and social media feel neglected to me, and I imagine it all feels that way to visitors. Second-- I want to note that Fals' Fiction has been copied from Medium.com into …

Fiction | Our Favorite Android

You ask him this time. © Angel-Kun We keep losing track of our favorite android. I don’t know how he’s moving through the ship. But CommDeck always finds his recordings. 4Derek (as he calls himself) goes into an unidentified setting–a converted access area of the ship where the location trackers aren’t working. He strips naked …

Poem | Gifts in Silk

© KateNovikova ​I have given you bows wrapping my body, faux silk printed by bots, so tiny, creating, spinning from liquid — the opposite of melting touch. Originally published in P.S. I Love You: Poetry Sunday.

Fiction | Meet Me in Spurta

Hey, bro, I’d promised after the lecture to msg about the group. We meet in the Spurta app Sat. Every week. Full day with a break for lunch. The mornings are for fighting. The evenings are fucking. You don’t have go full-body for the arena but turn on ALL your haptics for the temple. Whatever …

Camping in July 2019

April's Camp NaNoWriMo was unproductive due to family and health issues. That was the first of two of the two casual, international writing events hosted by the National Novel Writing Month team. That means there's a make up camp! For this month's project, I'm returning to the romantic science fiction novel that's the core of …

Fiction | Demonic Garage

Someone’s going to have to lend a hand. © calibra ​The demon gave up on tempting Irwin from his seat in the back corner of Irwin’s garage. He’d sat on the raised platform by the door into the house too long, apparently. The metal legs of his chair clanged on the concrete floor. “How long you …

Fiction | Sunrise Scales

That one (fantastical) fish in the sea. © mateusmiliano10 My former mate tried to twist out of my net. I don’t think he recognized me. Must have been my hairy legs. “Let go! Let go!” “Hmmm, nope.” I squatted in the shallows where he’d swam into my trap. He slapped his fish tail and man …

10+ Queer SFF Webcomics for Adults

There was an interesting discussion prompt in my Twitter feed today... Comic books, graphic novels, web comics: what kind of non-prose SF&F works are you into? Do any of them have a particular LGBTQ+ focus? Share!https://t.co/Iqn1ZsCvAx#ComicBooks #SpecFic #discussion pic.twitter.com/khq3cQhlsd — Queer Sci Fi (@QueerSciFi) March 8, 2019 And I thought, Jeesh, what kind of science …