So there's this new Kickstarter for Queers Destroy Science Fiction. Don't take the name literally; this is an all-QUILTBAG issue of a science fiction magazine. In fact, let me just quote the Kickstarter ( Read more... )

Prompts are going on for this ficathon right now. You don't have to participate to prompt, either. And you can leave prompts for every fandom, including original fic.


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I have talented people on my flist, I really do.

You need to go read these stories.

Alice Green by schiarire. Lovely, eerie, and Gaimanesque. I do not think I will forget Alice Green in a hurry.

Laurie by genarti. Portrait of a strange and haunting young woman. I'm a bit creeped by how closely Laurie resembles some friends of mine from my college days.

Cross-posted to writing_101.

The assignment this week was to tell, or retell a fairy tale--light, dark, fractured, etc. This story is a retelling of "Rumplestiltskin" from the title character's point of view. I don't quite know how to describe the story; it almost seemed to write itself.

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