Fiction | Our Favorite Android

You ask him this time.© Angel-KunWe 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 in the recording. …

Fiction | Gifts in Silk

Poetry Sunday© KateNovikova​I have givenyou bowswrappingmy body,faux silkprinted by bots,so tiny,creating,spinningfrom liquid — the oppositeof melting touch.

Fiction | Meet Me in Spurta

Fiction FridayImages from Pixabay, CanvaHey, 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 …

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 gonna work on …

Fiction | Sunrise Scales

That one (fantastical) fish in the sea.© mateusmiliano10My 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 arms around. Even in …

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 …

Fiction | Rising in His Moonlit Guard

a fantasy romantica drabble© iZer0The pointed tips of Narrentuarn’s ears twitched at the urgent sounds in his mind. His hands vibrated from the desperate energy in his two ceremonial swords. The spell worked. They were coming. Across the platform of the moon rising ceremony, Hrroulenan gently drew smooth arcs of thickly smoking, herbal balls. His hypnotic body …

Stories Don’t Have to Create Real Life Conflict

This post is a response to M/M Romance author Kevin Klehr's "Stories Should Have Conflict". In which century were powerful tales not needed? Storytelling has endured through thousands of years because it is a type of power for humans. At this time, we have more humans than ever in known history. We have storytellers. We can …

Eligibility Post for 2019 SFF Awards

This post is an expansion of "Time Jumps: 2018 Review". Messy details are presented here for later reference. Works Published in 2018 Most of my science fiction and fantasy (SFF) last year was flash fiction. Below is a list. Short stories and one poem published on Medium.com. Of note... "Love Letters" (Feb) "Disconnect" (Feb) "Wrangling …