🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JANUARY 2026🏳️🌈
I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @coreyjwhite.com @thedescenters.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @victormanibo.com @seraph76.bsky.social @remedy.bsky.social & MANY MORE!!!
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Consider not counting how many words you wrote today as if that number would decide your worth as a human being.
Started noodling on something that can best be summed up as ”harried customer service in space”. I have to use my years of getting yelled at over the phone for something. (I can do two things: fiction and customer service. I don’t want to go back to customer service ever)
Someday! I was once asked why I never write sexy stuff but it just hasn’t been a thing. Maybe smutty space opera is what was waiting for me all along.
Clearly, I need to write more space smut
Exactly. How are you going to credibly raise someone’s chin with the tip of your meteorite-forged nano rapier if they’re not kåträdd?
Yes, definitely, into it. Terrifying, brooding, hot. It induces the reaction that we in Swedish would call ”kåträdd”, horny and scared at the same time.
I am VERY in favor of impractically high, wide and stiff necklines that go up to your chin, like a turtleneck but make it architectural. Like if you’re the prince of a smuggling empire and also use magic, you might favor that. Asymmetrical boatneck is verrrry good though.
Lightspeed magazine cover: a humanoid holding a scythe streaks across a desert
I’m so happy to share my SF horror flash, ‘The Worldbuilder,’ published today in @lightspeedmagazine.com! The story is an homage to Joanna Russ’ ‘We Who are About To…’, enfolding the morbid xenophilic curiosity of ‘Alien’ (hi, welcome to my work 😈)
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I did make it in the end. But it took wrath and grit and pushing past endless ”career is over” moments. I still have those because I’m a very slow writer and because I’m human. Moral of the story: keep pushing. Maybe your career isn’t over. Maybe it begins now. You can’t know until after.
Before that, no one wanted to buy my poetry collection that I had carefully put together from dream notes. Again, career over before it had even started. Nope. ->
Before that, I thought my career was over before it even started because my first collection (Swedish) fizzled out when the publisher disappeared without a trace along with the book. At Clarion, Jeff Vandermeer said ”in a while, it’s just going to be a blip in your history.” He was right. ->
I was asked yesterday about copies of Amatka in Swedish. Flashback to when I dragged home 100 remainder copies of the book while the rest was pulped because it didn’t sell. Thought my career was over before it even started. Reader, it wasn’t. I got angry instead and translated it. Cont’d ->
Försnacket gick ut på att jag vet lite för mycket om proteinpulver och att Paloma har bra intel om skidskyttedrama.
Jag var i Skellefteå och hängde på Hubben och gafflade med Paloma Halén Roman från Transammans. Det var astrevligt och de lokala queersen var hur gulliga som helst. Ämnen: medelålders queerhet, att skriva världen man vill kämpa för. Att vi lever i en guldålder för queer fantastik. För det gör vi.
Du får bara säga något om du håller med! Annars får du skrika din kritik i en burk och gräva ner den. Tänk på min ömtåliga själ.
Det är väldigt mycket böcker som makuleras för att de inte säljer jättemycket jättefort. Hård värld!
Jag svarade @nollbok.bsky.social som skickade upp nödraketen: har inga att göra mig av med men tycker själv bättre om den engelska (som jag översatte och bearbetade själv). F ö är Amatka orsaken till att jag bytte språk. Den sålde så dåligt att upplagan makulerades. Jag blev vred.
Jag har bara två ex kvar, båda jobbex som jag har klottrat i (de kan säkert auktioneras ut efter min död). MEN jag vill poängtera att jag översatte den engelska utgåvan själv + skrev om den så att den blev en bättre bok.
And the first album I’m spending time with in 2026 is the new one from Florence + the Machine. To be frank I would also like to become a giant squid and howl at the stars. I’m sure some of you would join.
The final album I spent time with in 2025 was Massive Scar Era’s Assyad. I discovered it through The Devil You Know podcast’s extra episode ”Arab Spring, Satanic Summer”, an interview w founder Cherine Amr. I keep finding new things in it with each listen.
Oh lovely! Thank you. I only had This Lush Garden Within as a teenager, before the Internet, when finding a strange and beautiful record was like discovering treasure.
Found my old cd player and am digitizing some hard to find stuff. Albums and EPs by Black Tape For a Blue Girl, Curve, The Tea Party, The Creatures, and last but not least the iconic Gothic Rock anthology from 1992. The 90s were great for goth. The 90s were harsh on my eyebrows.
It was such a joy to blurb (although you made me cry)
Yay! Let’s talk about it when we’re done.
One poetry collection and enough short stories to fill a couple of books. So a myriad of small trunks rather than a few big ones, continuously during my career.
Like Hval, I grew up as a girl in the Scandinavian 90s. I was also into metal, but girls couldn’t be trve kvlt. (I turned to goth, where girls could be witches) I didn’t have to deal with oppressive Christianity, but much of the rest is familiar.
Reading Å hate Gud/Girls against God by Jenny Hval. I only knew Hval as a musician, now I know her as a witch of words. She does not mince them. Hate: a powerful tool in the hands of girls. Girls: ridiculed, minimized, taught they are worth nothing except perhaps what their bodies can deliver.
We want to ask anyone who comes across this study to avoid and not to participate in it.
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I’ve promised myself to write something here about aliens and faeries through the perspectives of writers like John Keel and Patrick Harpur, and I hopefully will, because it’s incredibly interesting and haunts me. Probably essay material, but who has the energy to write essays?
