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Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories Featuring Pop Culture
Find sexy pirates, bachelorette viewing parties, and Whitney Houston crushes in these pop culture-packed queer short stories.
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“Human Sacrifices” Is a Latine and Feminist Gothic Must-Read
Gothic is the instrument by which Latine authors have historically been able to explore coloniality, migration, violence, and other horrors of Latin American society.
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The U.S. Occupation of Hawaiʻi Haunts the Pages of This Extraordinary Short Fiction Collection
It’s beautifully constructed from start to finish, and while the stories will get under your skin, it’s a welcome invasion.
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Speculative Short Fiction Collection “Sweetlust” Disturbs and Delights
This is a deeply feminist work, but it’s not sanitized, commodified feminism. The feminism here is raw, living, harsh and at times, violent.
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K-Ming Chang on Writing Sex Scenes, Profanity in Myths, and Letting Flash Fiction Be Messy
I’m finally getting to write the sex scenes of my dreams — some really weird, some really tender, and others in between.
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Author Lydia Conklin on Being Queer in the 90s and Writing Characters in Transitional Moments
“Somebody told me that pretty much everyone who grew up queer, especially in our generation, is a secretive person or has an ability for secrecy.”
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Quiz: Which Queer Short Story Collection Should You Read?
Need some bite-sized pieces of queer fiction? Try a short story collection!
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With Characters From Middle School to Middle Age, This LGBTQ Short Fiction Collection Has the Range
In resisting the tidiness of a happy ending, Conklin demonstrates something profound and important that made me cry at several of these stories.
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Jean Chen Ho on “Fiona and Jane,” the Eros of Friendship, and Finding Your Fiction Community
“When I was writing these women and their mothers, I wanted to show that these are individuals.”
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Morgan Thomas On Weaving Genderqueer History Into Their Debut Short Fiction Collection “Manywhere”
“I was really interested in writing about specifically Southern and genderqueer characters, in part because I felt like I hadn’t seen myself in both the literature and in the sort of ‘mythos’ of the South. So I wanted to fill in that gap.”