Crystal Koo
@crystalkoo.bsky.social
Backroads fictionist 🇵🇭🇭🇰🌈 http://cgskoo.wordpress.com/publications http://www.instagram.com/anewartistry
Featuring stories from @augursociety.bsky.social, @lunastation.bsky.social, @othersidespec.bsky.social, @salonsinister.com, @pseudopod.org, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @flashpointsf.bsky.social, @thefuturefire.bsky.social, @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, and @translunartl.bsky.social
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 3w agoI have 10 new short speculative fiction stories for you! reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
Thank you so much to the Otherside team for making this possible! 💕
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 3w agoSo thrilled to see Crystal Koo's "One Floor, One Phoenix" featured in this stellar lineup! This one is "a challenging story about a woman who refuses to learn her lesson, and the emotional carnage in her wake" (and we think you're going to love it) 🐦🔥
Honored that "One Floor, One Phoenix" is included here, thank you, Alex! Can't wait to check out the rest of this list
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 3w agoI have 10 new short speculative fiction stories for you! reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
So pleased to have this in OTHERSIDE!! 🐦🔥
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last mo.Issue 3 is OUT NOW on our website! In “One Floor, One Phoenix,” @crystalkoo.bsky.social examines the ugly intersections of technology and shame. We can't tell you more without spoilers; you're just going to have to read this one for yourself ASAP. 🐦🔥 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/one-f...
One Floor, One Phoenix is live in @othersidespec.bsky.social Issue 3! Thank you eds. MR Robinson and Ash Vale. I haven't had a story set so overtly in HK for a while now (title is based on 一樓一鳳) so it's nice to see this out in the world! Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/one-f...
One Floor, One Phoenix - OTHERSIDE
The copper foundries and noodle factories have vanished. The dockyards have been torn down; now the Kwun Tong waterfront shimmers with glass-fronted blockchain startups and AI treasuries. The Horsepai...
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IT’S HERE! And YOU’RE GONNA LOVE IT. (If you love sapphic vampires and eldritch whales and ravenous wolves and strange miracles and heartbreak and hunger and desire and duty and devotion—) In all seriousness: thank you to our authors and our readers for being one of the best parts of my life 🧡
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last mo.ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/
ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/
Vampires! Eldritch whales! Pathetic lesbians! Weird science! Vengeful trees! Sadness! As always, this issue has everything you crave
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 2mo agoIssue 3 is OUT NOW FOR SUBSCRIBERS! Check your email! 🪐🗡️🧡 If you aren't a subscriber, Issue 3 will be free online September 30th! But if you'd like to support us and read Issue 3 before anyone else, snag your copy today! Patreon: www.patreon.com/OthersideSpe... Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe...
ISSUE 3 COVER REVEAL! As always, art is by the incredible @hvmator.bsky.social, who has once again absolutely nailed the vibes. Those golds and reds! These stories and poems! We can't wait for you to read this issue 🧡 You're going to love it.
In this new essay from Crystal Koo, Jeanette Winterson is shown to present individual agency as having little real impact on the world around the main characters in The Stone Gods. www.speculativeinsight.com Tag @crystalkoo.bsky.social
If you've read Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods - or even if you haven't! - this is a great essay about agency in the face of planetary-scale events. Read it now, for free! www.speculativeinsight.com Tag @crystalkoo.bsky.social
Yay, thank you Alexandra!! :D Very happy to have this out in the world!
Speculative Insight journal@speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 4mo agoCrystal Koo examines the question of agency in Jeanette Winterson's novel The Stone Gods in this new (free!) essay. Read it here now: www.speculativeinsight.com
Thank you for the thoughtful recommendation, NM - really enjoyed reading what you got from it!
nm whitley@nmwhitley.bsky.social · 7mo agoI also failed to link to February's with stuff by @crystalkoo.bsky.social and Perry Ruhlands plus work from @lcvonhessen.bsky.social @noraraywrites.bsky.social and others in the latest @seizethepress.bsky.social Ah, and of course the Of Montreal Outback SteakHouse ad buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
Excited to be in Heartlines Spec this March!
Heartlines Spec@heartlines-spec.com · 9mo agoIssue 10 has its bones! Our exquisite corpse will be affixed with short fiction from: @pbarmby.bsky.social Rachel Esser @crystalkoo.bsky.social @bookended-islal.bsky.social Anne Liberton @parkeriswriting.bsky.social Scott Payne Julia Raye
"I am the oldest daughter. To look after my family, I will have to bring a leopard home. Or be married off to a man with a string of leopard teeth laced around his neck. But I am not interested in men." Read 'Ghost Leopard' by @crystalkoo.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-ghos... #SFF
Ghost Leopard by Crystal Koo
Here in Blazing Mound, we are not adults until we have brought home a leopard.
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Thanks for recommending Ash! 💕 I'm glad you enjoyed it!
ash vs the evil dead@ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 11mo agoin this month's (slightly late) newsletter, I talk a lil about pressure around the holidays (esp with kids), social overwhelm, and what I've been up to lately. I also have story recs from @crystalkoo.bsky.social in @innerworlds.bsky.social 🐆 and @aishatuado.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com ❄️
Thanks so much @nomonbooks.bsky.social!!! 💕 Looking forward to reading yours!
Mon@nomonbooks.bsky.social · 11mo agoVery obsessed with Ghost Leopard by @crystalkoo.bsky.social Read here: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-ghos... An achingly beautiful illustration of what can be built in place of a broken heart. Deliciously speculative. Published in @innerworlds.bsky.social
My short story Ghost Leopard is up at Inner Worlds! Big thanks to editor Sarah Jackson and excited to read the work of all these fine people
Inner Worlds@innerworlds.bsky.social · 11mo ago👾🌟 Here it is, pals: issue 9! 🌟👾 Includes numerous CREATURES. inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e... #SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag
