Fiction Archives

May 18, 2010 4 min read

Lambda Award Finalist There is much that is dark in this book: both psychic darkness within the characters and actual...

‘Risk’ by Elana Dykewomon

Mikaya Heart

Fiction

May 15, 2010 2 min read

This story spans a dozen years in the life of Carol, a fat Jewish femme lesbian living in Berkeley. She...

‘Torn’ by Amber Lehman

Marilyn Jaye Lewis

Fiction

May 11, 2010 2 min read

Lambda Award Finalist If a bisexual coming-of-age novel like Torn had been written when I was coming of age in...

‘A Field Guide to Deception’ by Jill Malone

Lara Zielinsky

Fiction

May 4, 2010 2 min read

This is Jill Malone’s second novel. Her first, Red Audrey and The Roping, won the Bywater Prize for Fiction, which...

‘Arusha’ by J.E. Knowles

Lara Zielinsky

Fiction Romance

April 20, 2010 3 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Arusha is a place in Africa, the setting for peace accords to bring calm to a region...

‘The Moonlit Earth’ by Christopher Rice

Alan Chin

Fiction

April 6, 2010 2 min read

At thirty years old, Megan Reynolds is an outsider in her affluent hometown of Cathedral Beach, California. She has recently...

‘The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet’ by Myrlin A. Hermes

Nathan Tipton

Fiction

March 30, 2010 3 min read

Lambda Literary Award Finalist First off, a confession: although I love Shakespeare and consider myself an avid Shakespearean scholar and...

‘Toothpick House’ by Lee Lynch

Cheri Crystal

Fiction

March 9, 2010 4 min read

In the late 70s, I studied Women in Literature in a college-level course. I feel cheated that Lee Lynch’s short...

‘More of This World or Maybe Another’ by Barb Johnson

Susan Stinson

Fiction

March 9, 2010 4 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Anyone who has been worrying about the current state of fiction or who has any questions about...

‘Another Life Altogether’ by Elaine Beale

Julie R. Enszer

Fiction

March 2, 2010 5 min read

When Jesse Bennett’s family moves to a small town on northern England after her mother’s return home from a mental...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Nothing Pink’ by Mark Hardy

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

‘Silver Lake’ by Peter Gadol

‘Risk’ by Elana Dykewomon

‘Torn’ by Amber Lehman

‘A Field Guide to Deception’ by Jill Malone

‘Arusha’ by J.E. Knowles

‘The Moonlit Earth’ by Christopher Rice

‘The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet’ by Myrlin A. Hermes

‘Toothpick House’ by Lee Lynch

‘More of This World or Maybe Another’ by Barb Johnson

‘Another Life Altogether’ by Elaine Beale

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta