Tag: short story
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Ghost Girl & Reshaping Old Tales
“Ghost Girl” is a queer reshaping of Scandinavian murdered child folktales.
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Dropping Some Radical FREE Fiction for Pride Month
This quaint little one-night stand fantasy is, in fact, a radical, revolutionary tale.
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Short Story: They Are Life
They Are Life is a short story that follows a bold and rebellious woman’s quest to save a doomed people. It was originally published in U. S. Represented in 2015.
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Publication: Man to Man
Man to Man was first published in Cactus Heart in 2012. It follows a trans man, Ben, a ranch-hand who picks up an odd job and meets a handsome, charming stranger along the way.
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A Little Bit of Smut
Apparently I have sold two other stories. The ink has maybe kind of dried on the contract, so I’ll just babble about them. I originally wrote the two stories for a colleague. He wanted to start some kind of electronic zine, and I said I’d write some stories for him. I wrote the pieces but […]
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I am in the House of Mercy
I’ve been writing shorter fiction this summer, while I’m on a break from my main manuscript. This excerpt is from one of those pieces of shorter fiction, titled Queer as Love. The story follows a married couple as one of them transitions from female to male. This part comes after the narrator, who is the cisgender spouse, […]
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Short Story Publication: The Blind Tattooist
Today my short story, “The Blind Tattooist”, came out in issue three of |tap|. This story is important to me for a few reasons. It is that it is the first publication I’ve had in the two years since I began submitting short stories professionally, since I decided I would only submit to paying markets. […]
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I Learned Proto-Celt for a Reason Dammit
. . . what do you mean, all the studying and reading I did on Celtic languages and Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain might actually be useful after all?
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No Big Deal
Just have to embody the essence of Florence in a few sentences. No pressure or anything. Edited to Add: I did it. Now I’m going to eat all the cookies as a reward.
J. S. Kuiken 