Blood Ties
A trans teen runs away from home, and has to make some new friends to survive on the streets.
Science Fiction Short Story
Category: Science Fiction
Science Fiction Short Story
Blood Hunt
While staking out a target, a transgender bounty hunter discovers a machine that could grant her greatest desires.
Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction
The Black Tides of Heaven
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While his sister received visions of what would be, Akeha realized what could be. What’s more,…
Fantasy Fiction Horror Science Fiction
The Drowning Girl
India Morgan Phelps—Imp to her friends—is schizophrenic. She can no longer trust her own mind, convinced that her memories have somehow betrayed her, forcing her to question her very identity. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about an encounter with a vicious siren, or a helpless wolf who came…
Adventure Fantasy Fiction Horror Science Fiction
Hollow Pike
Something wicked this way comes… Lis London thought she’d be safe in the country, but even in the country she can’t escape her own nightmares. Over and over, she dreams that someone is trying to kill her. Lis thinks she’s being paranoid – after all, who would want to murder her? She doesn’t believe in…
Fiction Science Fiction Short Story Theory
Future Fatigue: Trans Intimacies and Trans Presents (or How to Survive the Interregnum)
This essay explores the ways that teleological narratives of transition come coupled with corresponding affective narratives that frame life “pre” transition as characterized by a reductively bleak emotional surround and cathect life “post” transition to a bright-sided promise of social ease, domestic comfort, and existential peace. Building on Lauren Berlant’s theorization of cruel optimism and…
Fiction Horror Science Fiction Suspense/Thriller
Transmuted (Rewind or Die Book 30)
Her doctor is giving her the body of his dreams…and her nightmares. Isa is a micro-celebrity who rarely shows her face, and can’t wait to have it expertly ripped off and rearranged to look more feminine. When a successful fundraiser makes her gender affirming surgery possible, she’s overjoyed—until she has to give up all her…
Adventure Children's Fiction Science Fiction Suspense/Thriller
Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror
“You’re a monster. All the children here are monsters. This is the Academy for Monsters.” Falcon Quinn and his neighbors, Max and Megan, board bus #13 for school on an ordinary day in Maine. Only the bus doesn’t take its ordinary route, and the friends soon find themselves in an extraordinary place—on Shadow Island, at…
Adventure Fiction Science Fiction
The Seep
Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—but nonetheless world-changing—invasion by an alien entity calling itself The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible. Trina and her wife, Deeba, live…
Children's Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction
Lizard Radio
In a futuristic society run by an all-powerful Gov, a bender teen on the cusp of adulthood has choices to make that will change her life—and maybe the world. Fifteen-year-old bender Kivali has had a rough time in a gender-rigid culture. Abandoned as a baby and raised by Sheila, an ardent nonconformist, Kivali has always…