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All Your Friends are Here by M. Shaw
Your new favorite assortment of New Weird Lit stories about car-vampires; fascist deer; memory-devouring tree gods; and the torment matrix; …
Writer and software engineer in the US Midwest. I enjoy poetry, horror, some f/sf, some mystery, some literary fiction (but not the kind where the main character is a professor and nothing happens).
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Your new favorite assortment of New Weird Lit stories about car-vampires; fascist deer; memory-devouring tree gods; and the torment matrix; …

There’s a certain sameness to many of the poems here. I don’t know if that reflects editorial preferences or the state of U.S. prose poetry at the time. A few pieces are delightful.


This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from …
A grand tapestry of Paraguayan mythology that touches on the complexities of good versus evil, …
An absolutely wonderful collection of poems for lovers of monsters, myths, vivid language, and empathy.

"Even as the broader LGBT community enjoys political and societal advances in North America, the bisexual community still today contends …
I loved this book. How could I not? It’s a book about me. More than any book about psychological issues or sexuality or coming from a cult-like religion. It includes all that and more. It’s a book I feel at home in. (Plus, it’s helped grow my book shopping list.)
I loved this book. How could I not? It’s a book about me. More than any book about psychological issues or sexuality or coming from a cult-like religion. It includes all that and more. It’s a book I feel at home in. (Plus, it’s helped grow my book shopping list.)

This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from …