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In Her Image

Coming Soon

Esther willingly sacrifices it all: job, relationship, even liberty to see her children survive long enough to call her 'Mother'.

Far Future Machine Sentience Queer X Family
A photograph of an ornate, multi-level historic library interior, with floor-to-ceiling wooden bookshelves filled with old books, an elaborate wrought-iron balcony railing in the foreground, and a large, white, sans-serif text overlay across the center that reads "Coming Soon".
Tales & Feathers (Augur)

Anoup the Apothecary

Long after his worshippers are enthralled by new gods, Anoup lingers, his devotion undiminished, his folly uncurbed.

Religion Myths Queer X
A photograph of an ornate, multi-level historic library interior, with floor-to-ceiling wooden bookshelves filled with old books, an elaborate wrought-iron balcony railing in the foreground, and a large, white, sans-serif text overlay across the center that reads "Coming Soon".
Bad Romance (Parsec Ink)

Never Again, Yet Again

The afterlife is nothing like you imagined, and much, much more! Nude selfies, gilded antiques, and white truffles. Watch your pennies!

Far Future Queer X Inequality Family
A photograph of an ornate, multi-level historic library interior, with floor-to-ceiling wooden bookshelves filled with old books, an elaborate wrought-iron balcony railing in the foreground, and a large, white, sans-serif text overlay across the center that reads "Coming Soon".
Home Constellations (Manawaker Studio)

Triangles Are Forever

Weighed down by her past and beset by threats, Keziah risks it all for love and family.

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Far Future Queer X Family
Cover of Home Constellations: A Speculative Anthology of Unconventional Bonds, featuring an illustration of a domestic kitchen scene where a diverse family—including humans and anthropomorphic, fox-like characters—interact, with one young fox child looking out a large window into a starry nebula.
Inner Worlds

3 East

When a family medical emergency takes an unexpected turn, conditional love and reluctant acceptance are no longer enough.

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Queer X Family Death
Cover of Inner Worlds, Issue Nine, November 2025, featuring an illustration of a person in a yellow helmet surrounded by plants and stars.
Amplitudes (Erewhon Books)

Fettle & Sunder

When a queer couple's worst nightmare is reified, it upends their orderly life and sends them scrambling for a way out.

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Near Future Queer X Family Religion
Cover of Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, featuring elongated, iridescent metallic lettering for the title surrounded by shiny four-pointed stars on a dark background.
Baffling Magazine (Neon Hemlock Press)

Omar's Perfect Falafel

In the shadow of the Citadel, Omar dispenses his falafel to the hungry and impoverished, but no one quite knows where he gets them.

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Queer X Myths Self Acceptance
Cover of Baffling, Issue Sixteen, July 2024, featuring an illustration of two men embracing and floating in mid-air amidst swirling purple and yellow light trails above a sea of blue clouds.
Translunar Travelers Lounge

Redemption for the Unseen

The afterlife is nothing like you imagined, and much, much more! Nude selfies, gilded antiques, and white truffles. Watch your pennies!

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Far Future Queer X Inequality Family
Cover of Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue Nine, August 2023, featuring an illustration of a figure standing on a wooden suspension bridge holding a torch aloft toward a large, glowing orange phoenix flying in the night sky.
Utopia Science Fiction

Earl Grey and Some Glue

In a dizzyingly changing world, Awad hangs onto the only thing he has left from the life he once cherished, whatever the cost.

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Far Future Queer X Machine Sentience Family
Cover of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, June/July 2023, featuring a top-down photograph of broken white and blue ceramic shards scattered across a dark, marble-patterned tiled floor.
Hidden Realms (Flame Tree Press)

Taher & Laith

Despite a multitude of chasms separating them, Taher and Laith found one another, but how long could this unlikely pairing last?

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Queer X Myths Young Adult Self Acceptance
Cover of Gothic Fantasy: Hidden Realms Short Stories, featuring an intricate gold filigree border enclosing a purple text frame with a small arched doorway glowing at the bottom.
Tree And Stone

Triangles Are Forever

Weighed down by her past and beset by threats, Keziah risks it all for love and family.

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Far Future Queer X Family
Cover of Tree And Stone, Issue 2, October 2022, "QUEER AS F*", featuring an illustration of two figures embracing in front of a pink floral patterned wall, with one light-haired character reaching up to touch the dark, braided hair of an elf-eared companion.
Translunar Travelers Lounge

More Than Trinkets

What binds us together? What divides us? How do we find home?

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Far Future Queer X Time Dilation
Cover of Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue Three, August 2020, featuring an illustration of rocket ships ascending through thick, layered clouds, leaving glowing bright trails behind them.