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The Ice Queen by Ellie Anthony
A young woman strikes a deal with a faerie in her neighboring woods.
Morana by Maruška Slavec
A little girl and her mother witness the drowning of the effigy of the goddess Morana in a ritual to bring back spring.
Mrs Selkie by Emma Wells
A selkie long trapped by a man escapes her imprisonment and reclaims the sea.
Sam the Squid by Rimika Solloway
A squid who is also a woman deals with depression and abuse.
Two Paths Diverge in a Cemetery by Lily Bland
A chronically ill person ventures out for a walk in a cemetery, ruminates on life, death and illness.
Midnight Call by Safiya Cherfi
Unable to sleep, a young boy overhears his father on a call that shifts his priorities.
Transhumance by Andrew F. Giles
Fictional response to the ancient seasonal farming practice of transhumance, seen through a queer lens.
Snow Globe by Sapphire Allard
A pregnant woman reflects on her ancestry.
Across the Ocean by Yuqing Weng
A multi-generation story of immigration, repatriation, and the recovering of self-identity.
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A Night for the Saints by Heather Lee Shaw
A mother and daughter, two moments in time, both running towards and from family.
Transmogrification by Jael Montellano
Queer immigrant lovers attend a phantasmagoric festival on an eve that their relationship shifts.
A Hauf an a Hauf by Peter Bennett
An elderly man reflects on his past and, by extension, his current place in life as he goes to collect his pension and meet a friend for an afternoon drink. (Extract from Peter Bennett’s upcoming novel.)
A City Called Mine by Ranjini Nair
The cities in which we live often have profound effects on our inner lives, particularly when we are made to feel as if we don’t belong.
Mammalia by Helen Bowie
With the desertion of the vermin-people’s utopia, the vermin-children take to their own intergenerational justice, beginning anew through the art of the piper’s song.