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Love Over Glass, Skin Under Glass

“Love Over Glass, Skin Under Glass” is in Aurealis #64. It deals with sexuality, relationships, discovering yourself and glass. I’m not sure if I want to know about the controversy that’s mentioned....

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Mango Flies and Body Lies

A flash story of mine appears in issue 2 of Verse Kraken amongst the poetry and photographs and performances. With a very silly title, here is She is, there—amongst the Mango Trees—a Flytrap Garden, a...

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Heiresses of Russ 2014

Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction is out! And it contains my romance “Love Over Glass, Skin Under Glass” (published in Aurealis last year)! I’m stunned and delighted...

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Zenith’s Wake

Zenith’s Wake is up at Mirror Dance! At 9,400 words it’s the longest completed thing I’ve written since I was a teenager, and probably the first time I’ve had to use maths to work out how quickly a...

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Love Over Glass podcast

You can now listen to “Love Over Glass, Skin Under Glass” over at the GlitterShip podcast! And also read it, as there’s a full transcript provided! This is the first time “Love Over Glass” has been...

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stone

My hypertext poem “stone” is up at Interfictions Online! I hope you enjoy it! In the portion of my life between working out that I wasn’t straight and finding the word “aromantic”, all I knew was that...

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skins and seas

My short poem “Skin Ashore” is up at inkscrawl! It’s got a selkie and consonance and difficult life choices. And my longer poem “Singing Her Body Oceanic” is up at Liminality with mermaids and tattoos...

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sky and kin

My story “Tanith’s Sky” is one of 50 reprinted in The Best of Luna Station Quarterly: The First Five Years! This anthology’s only in paper form but you can still read “Tanith’s Sky” online here. It’s...

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painted skins, ungendered words, agender heart

The latest issue of Lackington’s is online for all to read now! You read my story, “Kin, Painted”, right here and see Likhain’s illustration for it, and there are other great stories and art to see....

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The Selkie Before Summer

southern fur seal; Milford Sound, New Zealand, February 2008 My long poem “The Selkie Before Summer” is up at Liminality! It’s about a southern fur seal (or maybe an Australian fur seal) who leaves the...

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reprint & interview

My interactive poem “stone” has been reprinted in sub-Q! There’s other interactive poems, and interactive fiction and games, over at sub-Q which you can check out too! And I did an author spotlight...

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Transcendent is here!

Transcendent: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction has been released into the world! It contains my story “Kin, Painted”, originally in Lackington’s, a gentle thing about queer children...

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my touch aversion

I’m touch-averse, though not repulsed. I do not enjoy the vast majority physical contact, it does nothing for me, I have no desire to touch or be touched, I read about skin hunger and I’m just baffled....

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She is, there—amongst the Mango Trees—a Flytrap Garden

Here’s a flash prosetry piece of mine which appeared in Verse Kraken in 2014! The formatting in this inspired me to do “stone”, my twine poem. “She is, there—amongst the Mango Trees—a Flytrap Garden”...

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Love Over Glass podcast

You can now listen to “Love Over Glass, Skin Under Glass” over at the GlitterShip podcast! And also read it, as there’s a full transcript provided! This is the first time “Love Over Glass” has been...

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stone

My hypertext poem “stone” is up at Interfictions Online! I hope you enjoy it! In the portion of my life between working out that I wasn’t straight and finding the word “aromantic”, all I knew was that...

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skins and seas

My short poem “Skin Ashore” is up at inkscrawl! It’s got a selkie and consonance and difficult life choices. And my longer poem “Singing Her Body Oceanic” is up at Liminality with mermaids and tattoos...

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sky and kin

My story “Tanith’s Sky” is one of 50 reprinted in The Best of Luna Station Quarterly: The First Five Years! This anthology’s only in paper form but you can still read “Tanith’s Sky” online here. It’s...

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The Selkie Before Summer

My long poem “The Selkie Before Summer” is up at Liminality! It’s about a southern fur seal (or maybe an Australian fur seal) who leaves the ocean for the first time to rescue a lover and ends up...

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reprint & interview

My interactive poem “stone” has been reprinted in sub-Q! There’s other interactive poems, and interactive fiction and games, over at sub-Q which you can check out too! And I did an author spotlight...

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