Anna Furtado Archives

July 29, 2014 3 min read

A twenty-something named Annie Jump Navarro, known to fellow online poker players as “Nova,” is about to experience a life-changing...

‘And a Time to Dance’ by Chris Paynter

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

July 17, 2014 2 min read

As And a Time to Dance opens, Corey Banner and Judy Wagner meet at a softball tournament for the first...

‘Positive Lightning’ by Laurie Salzler

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

July 9, 2014 3 min read

Positive Lightning (Blue Feather Books) tells the story of the intersection of two lives—both a little lost, both trying to find...

‘Nightingale’ by Andrea Bramhall

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

July 2, 2014 2 min read

Charlie Porter is an out and proud young woman who’s delayed starting college to recuperate from losing her first love...

‘Seneca Falls’ by Jesse J. Thoma

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

May 22, 2014 2 min read

Seneca King has a past and a limp. That’s our introduction to her as she enters Sophia College, an all-women’s...

‘Finding the Grain’ by Wynn Malone

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

March 26, 2014 3 min read

Sometimes it takes a lifetime to stop struggling against the grain.The title, Finding the Grain, suggests searching for something that’s...

‘Amor and More: Love Everafter’ edited by Radclyffe & Stacia Seaman

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

January 23, 2014 2 min read

I have to admit, I’m not a fan of anthologies. That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with them, I just...

‘Pale Wings Protecting’ by Lesley Davis

Anna Furtado

Mystery Speculative Fiction

December 10, 2013 2 min read

Detective Daryl Chandler has a gift even she finds hard to explain. She has the uncanny ability to find missing...

‘Web of Obsessions’ by Diane Wood

Anna Furtado

Mystery Romance

November 26, 2013 2 min read

Jordan MacKenzie is a social worker who has recently fled a job at a medium security women’s prison to a...

‘Simple Pleasures’ by Kenna White

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

November 17, 2013 3 min read

The story, Simple Pleasures (Bella Books), starts out benignly enough, with avid softball player Dale Kinsel participating in a charity...

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

‘All In’ by Nell Stark

‘And a Time to Dance’ by Chris Paynter

‘Positive Lightning’ by Laurie Salzler

‘Nightingale’ by Andrea Bramhall

‘Seneca Falls’ by Jesse J. Thoma

‘Finding the Grain’ by Wynn Malone

‘Amor and More: Love Everafter’ edited by Radclyffe & Stacia Seaman

‘Pale Wings Protecting’ by Lesley Davis

‘Web of Obsessions’ by Diane Wood

‘Simple Pleasures’ by Kenna White

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