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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.
Sprinkles by Eule Grey
The sprinkles and ripples of Miranda’s life stop her from buying eggs to make a meal for her date.
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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.
In Tempest, or the Night of Nightingales by Jac Harmon
When a stranger comes to stay in Port Tawe, his painting elicits a stream of painful memories and violent melodies for an injured musician.
All Hope Abandon! by Suki Hollywood
Spray and wipe. Spray and wipe. Nemesis cleaned the conveyor belt until it glistened like the back of a killer whale.
Flooding by Eve Darwood
A mother struggles to cope as the chaos in her home echoes the chaos in her head.