In a 1933 monastery of enforced silence, a nun with a brutal past is undone by a beautiful novice’s teasing flirtation. A tender, forbidden queer romance.
Three voices, one bookshelf — fiction and reflection in about twenty minutes.
Tag: short stories
A novice nun who sees the dead in every hall begs the immortal librarian for help and is handed a forbidden book that could free her mind or damn her.
A busking addict on the Lower East Side spends an afternoon with a stranger who claims to be Death — a darkly funny reckoning with addiction and race.
In a walled city where the smallest crime means a fine or death, a woman gambles her life flirting with the cloned officer sent to charge her. Tense sci-fi.
A grieving woman demands a revenge kill, and a bored president answers with a deadpan list of every way she won’t execute her — in a state where pencil is power.
Four misfits claim the worst lunch table in a Manhattan arts high school and play D&D against the dragons who hoard the world’s gold — for four years.
A towering farmer’s daughter who sees ghosts and gods enters an island convent that is secretly a school of magic. A lush, queer historical tale of power.
Kneeling beside her own grave, a criminal makes her last stand while her murdered lover bargains with Death to rewrite her fate. A dark, queer historical tale.
On the morning she means to flee an arranged marriage, a farm girl finds a yak impossibly blocking her dead mother’s kitchen. A tender queer historical tale.
The only girl who ever held him writes “I love you” in chalk — then a landlord drives her family out of town before he can answer. A first-love story.
The counting, people-averse dictator of the last city on Earth braces for another day of grievances and executions — steadied only by her wife.
A lizard salvager lands on a poisoned, war-scarred Earth to strip it for parts — and falls for the doomed blue rock he was sent to claim. Funny, wistful sci-fi.
A gifted Black nine-year-old outscores the richest boy in 1977 Woodstock, and his beloved teacher is pressured to make him retake the test and lose.
Worlds and decades apart, a suicidal boy and a condemned farm girl share one dreamed conversation that may decide whether either survives the morning.