Rose Blood: A Psychosis Induced Fantasy

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Such layered, savory detail, blended with a cup of anger and garnished with hope at the end. Rich and exciting, with a dash of horror and a thick aroma of dread; fantastical and frightening; luxurious and lush; a story that will kindle hunger in your bones. It made me cry in a good way and I cannot recommend it enough. This is the kind of uplifting science fiction I want to see so much more of in the world. In this story, Hyde gives us a thoughtful, emotional, and nuanced look at the aftermath of war and the war criminals involved, and the complications of what makes people human.

Hyde builds up all the people involved in complex ways, not shying away from the good or the bad. It offers no easy solutions and no pat ending. This is a quiet, difficult story and it takes its time—no flashy finale, just a sad, necessary end that has as much catharsis as room for the narrator to come to terms with her past, herself, and her future.

A sweet story about family and support and coming into your own voice. Mondal delivers a powerhouse narrative in few words and it will haunt you long after you read the last lines. This is a delightful mashup of modern tech and succubi mythos. Duckett blesses us with a great voice and gorgeous prose, a funny, sweet and bittersweet story about connections and all the threads that tie us, as people, together.

Full of shiny yet grounded in all-too-relatable needs, this one will stick with you. The prose is electric and sharp, the voice transcendent. What a fascinating look at tech and consent and the use of power; with a non-binary protagonist! I love seeing that. It ends a little abruptly, but in a way that makes you think. There is a lot packed into this, layers to unpeel and examine upon further re-reads.

Thompson has created an awesome near-future world and technology that seems all too real and possible, along with the implications of its use. Creeping and unsettling, this story about a found-footage horror movie project that two unsuspecting filmmakers get drawn into is eerie as fuck.

The arms of the heavy black lump reach closer to your windowsill. Found-footage as a genre is an uneven patchwork in the history of horror, but when done well, it can be brilliant. It is visual in just the right ways, and the format—a collection of emails—adds to the sense of reality and inevitability. This story which, disclaimer: Hoffmann weaves an ever-more-complex series of narratives: This is full of grief and loss and pain and rage and hope and triumph.

It is metafiction in the way it examines the opera, and changes the reality of the story through the agency of the women who take their destinies into their own hands; women who will not be forever silenced by the pen or words; women who find solace and who aid each other and build a better future, a truer ending for them all.

A brutal and wrenchingly sad, satisfying story about climate change and complacency and guilt; gorgeous visuals both searing and hauntingly cold. A practical and hilarious guide to ditching your fae boyfriend, such as the idea a quest: Gorgeous, chilling story about plane gods and priests. And Yet by A.

A disabled physicist revisits a haunted house to try to document her theories about multiple universes, and in the process, she discovers truths about herself and is able to make peace with elements of her past. The ending is powerful and emotional and perfect. A creepy, awesome story about a book club, and its founder, who lives under the apartment of a serial killer. Supremely rich in detail and atmosphere, and unsettling the more you think about it. This is a sarcastically charming take on superheroes and giant planet-eating space aliens!

Also TV shows and nostalgia in Hollywood. About a trans NB person dealing with the apocalypse. Brutal, truthful, and despite the title, hopeful. Weird and bittersweet and evocative, this story is about a world changed by some cataclysmic event. A researcher connects with the elephants she studies, and together humans and elephants learn how to hold on and look to a future they will make for themselves. Flow by Marissa Lingen Fireside. This is a powerful, wrenching, beautiful story about disability and naiads and finding yourself again. A bittersweet story about Giant Robot who just wants to remember colors in the sunset.

Enfys is on the hunt for tampons, and their voice is charming, honest, cheerful and wonderful all around. Great use of streaming channels and internet culture, plus I love that people are good and help each other in the wake of chaos. Angry, powerful, vivid—with sea monsters and tech and an intersex non-binary narrator. This is a fabulous story about faith and ecology and tradition. It will stick with you! Sexy, kinky, and charming—a murder! Deeply unsettling and creepy, with an unreliable narrator, and an incredibly articulated atmosphere. You can almost smell the bayou in the words.

This is a hilarious, heartwarming, charming story about an alien crew who is trying to figure out how to help their human crewmate deal with homesickness. The solution will make you melty with glee. Such a great feel-good tale! Surrealist and very sweet; a great idea and has a lot of heart. The protagonist collects moons, and when someone comes seeking a specific moon, they might just have what is needed to help another person cope with grief.

Lovely through and through. Utterly fantastic, brilliant story about books and need and helping people—a librarian works to help a depressed teenager survive with books. It keeps you riveted by the heartstrings and gives you such a breath of relief and a smile of joy by the end. A quiet, moving story about an elephant—lovely sensory detail and fascinating historical factoids make this a compelling, thoughtful little tale.

This is a sweet, full-of-feels time travel story with a positive-possible ending! Funny, real, compassionate and lovely, this one will make your heart warm and maybe beat a little faster in places! Object-Oriented by Arkady Martine Fireside. What a lovely, emotional, powerful story. This has an awesome voice, a really sad and believable premise, and will knock you down, kick you in the gut, and make you remember every moment by the end.

Erin Roberts has created a breathtaking, heartbreaking world and characters whom you will not forget soon. Powerful, disturbing, emotional, haunting—this story, about grief and loss, ultimately has a trace of hope in the end. Trigger warnings for suicide and gun violence. Oh my god, this is disturbing and creepy as fuck, with a great voice and unsettling premise! This story is gorgeous, haunting, and full of powerful emotions.

Told through entries of an atlas of places that may have existed and with margin notes from one woman to another, this is a deeply personal and uplifting story by the end. When the Slipling Comes to Call by N. Unholy wow is this story amazingly creepy and fantastic! It oozes dread and atmospheric horror and will make you not want to sleep or look outside your door for a long, long time. This is a delightful, charming story about a magical shop and the people who manage it.

It blends tropes, humor, and wonderful characters into a hilarious, sweet tale about making your place in the world. Lesbian gothic horror that builds to a slow, horrifying climax. Wickedly delightful and creepy. Even at a distance, Helen could tell she was a beauty. The voice is perfect in this bittersweet and fierce story about family and strength and survival. Plus, Susan is such a good bear—and one should never get between a bear and her cubs. I crawl out from under the covers, shivering at the memory of his anger, and go to the door.

The house is dark; ghosts made of sunlit wallpaper peek through curtains and down hallways. It smells like pine needles and mud. Language is used with incredible precision and perfection. She should probably be documenting this. Instead, she fidgets on her desk chair, adjusts the mic absently. At the same time she opens another window, hits the letters L and then I, highlights the word life from a list and deletes it. Brilliant and unsettling, this horror story shows you just how much stories change, depending on who tells it.

Because when Sally finally walked all the way to her room, pushing past co-eds in their flower-printed pyjamas, she found police tape and policemen. Haunting, beautiful and intimate, this story looks at loss and ghosts and family. How do you rebuild a life taken apart? One day at a time, with ribbon and whispers and learning how to live again.

This story is pure joy. Computron, stuck in a museum, discovers a TV show and begins writing fanfic—and in turn, makes friends and discovers he is not alone. The Simak Robotics Museum is not within close proximity of a black hole, and there is close to no possibility that time is being dilated. His constant checking of the chronometer to compare it with the countdown page serves no scientific purpose whatsoever.

A charming time-loop story about cute lesbians!

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Two women on the same bus, repeating the same few hours, bond and learn how to move forward into an unknown future. Amira knew that for a lie. Degradation took years of bit decay, even in Jovian radiation. The synaptic data was remarkably resilient to corruption. Even in virtual form, the brain found new pathways to work around any damage. Jones Lightspeed, December And what were cyborgs, except meat-wrapped steel pressed into the service of lesser creatures?

But now the forks were rebelling. George The Dark, March Harper makes Abby a cup of tea. Greenblatt Flash Fiction Online, September A small, perfect gem of a story: They said, watch out, everyone has a price. A charming, understated time travel story that explores the relationship between two people who have the power to change the past. But what they do with this power is where the heart of the story lies. The list lives in a little palm-sized flip notebook, plastic purple spiral holding it together at the top, glitter-outlined unicorn on the front.

An Li claims the notebook is a metaphor for the risks of nostalgia. She brandishes a pink gel pen that smells like plasticky strawberry foam. A gritty, fierce, sharp postapocalyptic western about rebellion and sacrifice. The truth-rider salutation only made her stomach turn. She touched her hat and turned the horse toward the next town. This fantastic, charming, delicious story is about food, ghosts, and lesbians. Reading it makes me hungry!

My search had finally turned up two promising results: Both still performed exorcisms for the princely sum of five thousand rupees and three boxes of chickpea-flour-and-sugar sweetmeats. Gorgeous, queer, and filled with longing and ghosts. Hauntings connect people and give them hope for closure and a future. The postcards were vintage, with terrible puns and bland innuendo: On the other side was a spidery scrawl of words in faded brown ink. This is a delightful, hilarious, charming story about bots! The Ship had not actually told it what was in cargo bay four, but surely it must have something to do with the war effort and was then none of its own business, the bot decided.

It had never minded not knowing a thing before, but it felt a slight unease now that it could neither explain, nor explain away. Food horror is my jam, and this story is ripe with gorgeous descriptions and mouth-watering detail that will make you hungry…maybe not in the best way. He ate a heaping forkful of the pie.

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The beast pushed up, stretching open the base of his esophagus, unfurling its own eager tongue. Raw, sharp, and so often unbearably human, Szpara examines many axises of marginalization and the trials and joys inherent in living in an imperfect world. But vampires who break the law, who feed from un-certified donors, who steal blood bags, or drink without asking first, are put on the Blood Offenders Registry, which is basically a hit list for corrupt cops and stake-wielding bigots. Brilliant and subversive, the story examines how colonialism destroys environments and people alike.

I am going to meet Pebblesmooth. This story has haunted me since I first read it. The story shows a dystopia that is all too real, too believable, and will chill you. It has no happy ending; this is a horror story and the tragedy comes from the wrenching understand that sometimes, we cannot endure everything. He checks his friends, makes sure no one is saying anything that could possibly be viewed as a violation. Just to be safe, he unfriends a few people who knew him back in college.

He hovers, weighing his options, then swallows and closes the app. Colonialism being interrogated and resisted against. The voice is perfect, the structure and mix of narrative and journal entries firmly grounds this in time and setting, and it builds to a slow, excruciating and unsettling conclusion.

When Emily was summoned to the island, Loretta asked her to be discreet. Tell nobody that we are sisters. There has been so much excellent fiction published this year; the wonderful field of SFFH is growing and diversifying and shining with amazing gems. I had one more story in this list which I mistook as a publication, when it was Gorgeous, riveting space opera on an epic scale that still remains deeply personal. Radiant with imagery and intense with emotion. Even barefoot in gauze, your Tamar looks dangerous.

So, this year was pretty damn good in terms of stories published.

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For people reading and nominating for various SFF awards, such as the Nebulas, the Hugos, and World Fantasy, I would be honored if you considered any of my work! These are not available online yet, but I am happy to email a copy of individual stories in your preferred format. Just ping me and let me know via the contact page. Vivian Caethe, August Butler and Joshua Palmatier, September With thanks to the Hamilton musical for being so quotable!

Just for ease of this post. In fiction, the author is all-powerful. Each choice the author makes—in particular, conscious decisions—reflects on the author. It can be choosing not to include rape culture or scenes of sexual or domestic violence.

It can be choosing not to have any swearing in the story. It can be choosing not to include potatoes. They are, like inclusionary choices [what you DO put in a story], simply a spectrum of authorial deliberation. However, as an author, what you do not include is just as important as what you do include. Sometimes these choices can arise from unexamined or unknown bias. Sometimes they arise from ignorance—whether to include or exclude specific elements or people from a narrative—and sometimes not.

If you have dragons but no People of Color, what does that say about your choices? Does a spacefaring worldship harbor only cishet white people? Look at it this way.

Those are deliberate decisions made in order to shape the story. You have the power to choose what you write about, who you write about, and for whom you write. The novel has very strong thematic questions about power, responsibility, and what we owe each other and ourselves with our actions. The plot focuses on authoritative powers who want to destroy things, and the protagonists are caught in this fight and must decide how it ends. It would be so easy to make this book tragic.

All I can say is: There will be no queer tragedy in this book. Damaveil and his husband live and are happy; Rajosja and her wife live and are happy; Bane lives and is… getting there; it just takes a little longer before he is happy again. The non-binary characters live and are happy. When I picked up this draft in order to revise, that jumped out at me like a neon sign.

When I realized this, it made me so happy. Not for any reason. I, as a reader and consumer of media, want to see more representation positive! I will not always succeed, and not every story will contain every multitude of people. A protagonist is one of the many lenses through which we experience story. Who you give this time, energy, and presence to in your work says something. He has strong friendships without needing romance or sexual relationships.

He can save the world when others would ask him only to destroy it. So, creators, keep in mind your power and your responsibility. When you mess up, you will be called on it, and how you respond is equally a choice. You can do better if you want. You can try harder.

What do you choose to include or exclude? I love creating playlists for different projects. What goes into the process of selecting music? The majority of secondary, minor, and referenced characters are women or non-binary, aside from some token characters whose only purpose is to die, in which case, all those are men. The principle antagonists are the human queen a woman and the fae Winter Lord coded male.

Which is not to say only boys show up—like I noted above, the majority of secondary and minor characters are women. The most powerful mage in the country is a non-binary person. Most of people in power are women. So then I made a flowchart!

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Actually it did calm me down as well as talking it out with friends. I started out building bookcases and organizing my books. I will read more. Support my friends and my communities. In , we shine brighter than ever before. Our existence is, in itself, an act of defiance towards our oppressors. We will not be silent or stop. We go on, we fight on, we create and we live and we love and we stand together. Write your stories, my friends. Let us shake the foundations of stone and sky with our words and our breath.

What do you seek, the crew wails. The ship will not answer. This body is empty. She scowls and moves to the next. The fungus covers you now. You have all you could ever want. She hated nature hikes. Rise and aid us. A glint of silver. I magnify the scanners… In my viewscreen, I see my ship. He recites the remembered colors: Is it even the sky he looks to anymore? It paused by the creche door. Tapped a hesitant tentacle on steel. The door opened and a huge banner hung from the ceiling.

All the purples swarmed around Threef and welcomed it home. I sighed and made us lunch. And the dinosaurs were hungry. Now the moon will come to her. It was the one and only envoy sent to earth. She offered me, the servant, her card. The moon is teeth; so is the sun. Music enrages them; blood is useless. What will they do when you have no dreams left? PUCE The shawl was a rich, velvet-smooth puce, fringed in glass beads that sighed with each movement.

She took it off his corpse and carried on.

Not true, replies the squiggly orb. Gonna get it back. RED The bus was almost empty when she stepped aboard, her red jacket soaked and her hood damp. You construct a vacuum. The regent stepped back, too late. Finn Diabolical Plot If you like puns, you will likely enjoy this a lot. Destiny by Melissa Mead Daily Science Fiction Mead has written a charming, meta-based story about an author who wanders into the story, and the kindness of characters who can make good changes.

Faint Voices, Increasingly Desperate by Anya Johanna DeNiro Shimmer With stunning prose, a fantastic and gorgeous mythology woven into shiny shapes, DeNiro has created an ethereal tale about gods and monsters. Fitzwater 3Lobe Burning Eye With haunting imagery and metaphor, exquisite writing, and a vicious edge so biting and aching that it builds tension so intense you are almost holding your breath, waiting for a release, this one is short and visceral and will stay with you long after the last words are glowing on the screen.

Wise The Dark This is heartbreaking, dark, and viscerally real: Jiak liu lian by Yap Xiong Arsenika This is a sensual, awesome story about vampires and durians—it made me hungry, even though I could almost taste the delicious fruit! Leviathan Sings to Me in the Deep by Nibedita Sen Nightmare This is a luxuriously dark, creepy, horrifying story about whaling, whales, monsters and the terror of the void.

Emperor All by Evan Marcroft Pseudopod This is really fucking effective horror brought to a nearly cosmic scale, while deceptively stationed within the bounds of a single unnamed city. Godmeat by Martin Cahill Lightspeed This story is a stunningly delicious sensory feast of fucked-up gods and broken mortals and it is amazing.

Rose Blood

The Pine Arch Collection by Michael Wehunt The Dark Creeping and unsettling, this story about a found-footage horror movie project that two unsuspecting filmmakers get drawn into is eerie as fuck. The idea is that Mankind needs organic technology of their own bodies as well as outer body technology to be outer space creatures. It posits a white space universe, with black stars. It is a fantasy novel, though short, and the main characters are Pandora, Jarrad Dickson and a mysterious woman named Rose Blood. It has original settings and striking visual elements, and is a strange, dark fantasy and one of its kind in the very popular literary genre of Fantasy.

He then went to the University of Auckland to study a BA. Though happy as a child, in his teenage years he had an unbelievable torment of depression. After befriending a girl who killed herself he descended into alcoholism and this made him very delusional, and after awhile his brain went haywire and had a tormenting and very frightening psychotic breakdown which lasted two months.

He saw his entire life pass before his eyes, but he saw himself be raped, abducted, eaten and saw his principle as an alien from Pluto who was wearing a body suit. After that, he thought he was suing Dilworth, who have millions of dollars of assets, and drew castles he would have at their properties. He frequently overdosed to shorten the time till he got the money. This delusion caused a psychotic relapse as well as using cannabis, and he relapsed the year after he had a psychotic breakdown.

He also knows four languages. Book Extract Psychosis turned him into an UFO; he has to live, he has to live, he has two hearts, he has to live. God has the eyes of Horus and is known as Michael Mathew, the two hearted one, with aura veins and primary dark space fire hair, and he is albino, a Chinalbino, and has golden eyes and rose window sclera. There he walks, on a moon, incarnated three-fold, three beauty queenly Kings, with breasts and naked, a rose petal penis under a pad called the Zavundular pad, with purple, gold and orange buttons to ejaculate coloured semen into beautiful woman.

Thank you for this beautiful experience.

He is a schizophrenic. He sees Ti and Do, in a black hole meditating, or in a sun reading memory or energy vibrations, seeing its past history, and they appear in a Yin and Yang dress, the female, and in an aqua blue Astral suit.

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