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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · Aug 31

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JULY 2025🏳️‍🌈
I round up nearly 30 stories by @elijah.mea.rs @karinlow.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @johnchu.bsky.social @emnorth.bsky.social @prioryruins.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social & more!!!
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Some Queer Short SFF - July 2025 | Charles Payseur

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Aug 31

thank you! i always love your round-ups 💜

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Aug 30

hi! my story ‘resurrections’ (about a woman’s very complicated relationship with the goddess Persephone) came out in strange horizons in july! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Resurrections

The second time she brings you back, you’re relieved to find yourself speechless. It seemed like it might be easier to just start again, she says, the sceptre in her hand tinged red at the top.

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · May 7

thank you!!! 🥹

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · May 7

absolutely thrilled to be in this amazing company & the company of all the past awardees and longlists. so many of my favorite books & authors 😭😭 and the write up of in universes is staggeringly perfect, truly a gift to be read so well.

Otherwise Award @otherwiseaward.org · May 6

The 2024 Otherwise Awards go to:

IN UNIVERSES by @emnorth.bsky.social
“Kiss of Life” by @pcverrone.com
RAKESFALL by @vajra.me
WALKING PRACTICE by Dolki Min, translated by Victoria Caudle

Congratulations!

Juror praise & 5 Long List works: otherwiseaward.org/2025/05/anno...

Announcing the 2024 Otherwise Award winners! « Otherwise Award

The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce four winners and a Long List for the 2024 Award. We’re honoring In Universes by Emet North, “Kiss of Life” by P.C. Verrone, Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera,...

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · May 1

yesss i love it when our books hang out together 🥹

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Feb 26

yesss i love procreate, it’s so freeing to just mess around on there

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Feb 23

amazing, i have not read this one!! thank youuu ✨

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Feb 23

thank you john!! 💜💜

Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Feb 23

aries who has already read (and loved) both the previous aries recs!

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Feb 23

This is how I feel too, and also a wonderfully succinct explanation of why I always mask, ESPECIALLY on stage.

Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Feb 23

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Feb 23

wow same, i love this

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Feb 16

a belated thank you!! i’ve been staying off social media but this is the loveliest thing to return to 💜

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Feb 16

i have read this book and it is SO GOOD and also unputdownable, cannot wait for it to be out in the world 🔥🔥

Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · Feb 4

so excited to announce that my second novel, ALL US SAINTS, is out next year from Bloomsbury ✨ it's about family, art, and the way a closeted trans girl's act of desperation is permanently warped in the cis imagination

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Feb 16

thank you for reading! i’m so happy it spoke to you 💜

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Feb 16

🥹💜💜💜

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Feb 16

i have not been on social media in a minute but this makes me SO happy, thank you @sarahpinsker.bsky.social!! i also adored The Practice and could not put it down. now i’ll have to check out The Underhistory.

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Feb 16

thank you so much for listening to it, i’m so happy it spoke to you 💜💜💜

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Nov 25

thank you so much, that means the world to me 💜

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Nov 18

just getting back on blue sky and seeing this made my day, thank you 💜💜💜

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · Sep 19

Bi Visibility Week? I'm visible for an entire *week*?

Brb, cancelling Friday's heist.

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Sep 18

Not technically horror and I haven't read the English translation but Delphine du Vigan's Based on a True Story is so good that I'll put in a rec anyway. Centers on a complicated & disturbing friendship and plays with autofiction in fun ways.

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Aug 31

As someone currently going through each of the 684(!!!!!) "that"s in my novel, this is vv inspiring. Next up: "almost" ☠️

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Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social · Aug 31

Agree so much with this. A teacher once told me that every piece of writing ought to *devastate* the reader, and I was like.... wait all of them? Please let me have a break from devastation at least once in a while!!! My heart can't take it!!

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 29

"Across America, parents are watching helplessly as trained surgeons compel their sons to become daughters and their daughters to become sons."

Knife-Wielding Doctors Roam Country Searching For Teens To Force To Be Trans

WASHINGTON—Warning citizens of a rising threat to the nation’s youth, U.S. officials cautioned Tuesday that knife-wielding doctors were roaming the country in search of adolescent children they co...

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