Quick Sips - Glittership Autumn 2018

Having a new issue of Glittership to read and experience is always reasons to celebrate, so break out the rainbow streamers and mix up something fruity as we celebrate Pride with a slew of queer short SFF. I should note that despite the cover reading Autumn 2018, these stories and poems are all 2019 originals (well, aside from the reprints) and should be considered for this year's awards eligibility. It's a great mix of work this issue, with three original stories, three poems, and three fiction reprints (which I won't be looking at today but which look very much worth checking out). They cover a range of genres and identities and really, if you're looking for some wonderfully queer works to read to celebrate the feeling of the season, you should pick up the issue or stream the podcasts immediately. To the reviews!

Quick Sips - Diabolical Plots #47

Art by Joey Jordan

It’s my pleasure to announce that starting today I’m adding a new publication to my reviewing list—Diabolical Plots! The venues tends to come out with two original stories a month, but kicks off 2019 with three short stories that present a mix of styles and structures. Indeed, the stories are linked perhaps by the novel ways they approach storytelling, with each taking a style that isn’t precisely new (a travelogue utopia/dystopia, a portrait of the mundane, and a list of words and definitions) but doing something different and delightful with them. There’s also a decent amount of darkness to even the brighter of these stories, and a humor to even the darkest of them. And they certainly don’t take the road most taken to reach their literary destinations. To yeah, let’s get to the reviews!

Quick Sips - Glittership March 2018

March brings one new and three reprint stories to Glittership (well, maybe more if they release again before the end of the month, but for now...). And can I just say that it's a delight to find a whole series of stories that don't really delve into the tragedy so often paired with being queer. Not that the stories are free of pain, or hardship, or loss, but that most of them imagine positive outcomes for the queer characters. Lifetimes to spend with the people that they love. Love blossoming. Resistance burning bright. And it's just a great assortment of settings and characters, most of them leaning fantasy but not entirely (time travel ftw!). To the reviews!