🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JUNE 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 works by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mdmcd.com @redscribe.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @ernerker.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

Some Queer Short SFF - June 2026 | Charles Payseur

Hi all! I’m still a mess in general but the show continues, this month with works from June—and there are quite a few, thanks in large part

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Now that the newsletter people got to see it first, presenting the official OUR CRIMSON CAGE art that will come with every signed pre-order of the book I'm fucking obsessed with the everything Artist: @exaltxix.bsky.social Pre-order link: ladz-merch.square.site/product/-pre...

It's my favorite time of the month!

Charles (Cy) Payseur@cypayseur.bsky.social · 6d ago

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JUNE 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 works by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mdmcd.com @redscribe.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @ernerker.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

Great round up of recent queer short SFF! Including my story "Two People" and all the other great stories in the second issue of @othersidespec.bsky.social!

Charles (Cy) Payseur@cypayseur.bsky.social · 6d ago

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JUNE 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 works by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mdmcd.com @redscribe.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @ernerker.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

it's short story dayyy!! do you want a slightly pensive story about change, giant robot bird watching, and a toxic ex that left you behind in the ruins of civilization? read "If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I" over at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨ 🪶 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/if-a... 🪶

If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I - Lightspeed Magazine

Green Plumed Orbital Line A; viridis metamorphos A Common sighting; Flies along the forty-fifth latitude every 12 minutes Traveler’s addendum: Last functional line along a northern latitude; southern ...

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Check out these queer SFF stories!

Charles (Cy) Payseur@cypayseur.bsky.social · 6d ago

The more includes @brynhammond.bsky.social @amobstwriter.bsky.social @benfrancisco.bsky.social @tobymacnutt.bsky.social @riengray.bsky.social & many others!

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JUNE 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 works by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mdmcd.com @redscribe.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @ernerker.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

Some Queer Short SFF - June 2026 | Charles Payseur

Hi all! I’m still a mess in general but the show continues, this month with works from June—and there are quite a few, thanks in large part

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Wednesday's Space Unicorn is full of whoa! The Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter is 74% funded! WE ARE SO CLOSE TO 3/4! LET'S KEEP THIS EXCELLENT ADVENTURE GOING! buff.ly/YXbF3WP

I had one out in Tasavvur tasavvurnama.com/moonwife/

Moonwife - Tasavvur

Moonwife is a South Asian Speculative Fiction story written by Rukman Ragas for the Summer 2026 edition of Tasavvur magazine.

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TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN JUNE 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's May's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

Some Queer Short SFF - May 2026 | Charles Payseur

Pride Month might be wrapping up for many people, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to stop paying attention to awesome queer short SFF. Now,

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It's release day! Like sea magic? Ghostly ships? A queer protag with ADHD? Tides of Time has all this and more. It's available on all the usual platforms at: books2read.com/b/tides3 Or start the series at books2read.com/b/tides1

Found out recently that Rainbow Crate has been doing a series of anthologies bsky.app/profile/rain...

Rainbow Crate@rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌈 It’s the final week to submit your story for inclusion in our Autumn Anthology! To celebrate our sixth anniversary this year, we’re publishing our fourth original anthology! This will be the final installment in the seasonal anthology set! 🧵

Please see below an awesome list of short queer work to read and, if you have the means, buy! Cy does amazing work!! Thanks, Cy! ❤️

Charles (Cy) Payseur@cypayseur.bsky.social · last wk.

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN JUNE 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's May's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

Oh, I have one! GRIEF EATER came out June 1, by me (Emma Osborne) and here is a link! Thank you Cy! ❤️ bookshop.org/p/books/grie...

Grief Eater

Visceral, gritty, and unforgiving, GRIEF EATER is a zombie story like you've never read before. When Kristina rises from her violent death, she's not the same fragile woman her family once abandoned. ...

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I see Sylvie here already, but we also had this one: escapepod.org/2026/06/25/e...

Escape Pod 1051: You Have Arrived at Your Destination

It starts with an accident. A dreary day, the road slick with rain. Emily’s letting the car’s auto-drive do the work because she’s brain-fried and exhausted, eyes glazed over from the weekday grind.

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Published May 2026 Title: Ruin In the Shadows (book 1.5 in the Virtual Magic urban fantasy series) Author name: A.M. Obst Link to sign up and get it for free: amobst.com/signup1 Can send cover image if needed!

ugh hit return whilst fishing for the link--paperback on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4BGGDZH/ thank you!

I have two! First: the novella edition of my romantic gay sword & sorcery tale BY THIEVES-LIGHT, 18k words, available on Amazon & Itch under my byline M. Daniel McDowell: jayxwolf.itch.io/by-thieves-l... www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6F9FR7K/

By Thieves-Light: EBOOK by jay

A Bladesmith & Brigand Novella

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and second is the print edition of my gay adventure fantasy romance novella BENEATH THE SHATTERED GODS, 26k words, available on Amazon & Itch, also M. Daniel McDowell: jayxwolf.itch.io/beneath-the-...

Beneath the Shattered Gods: EBOOK by jay

a gay romantic adventure fantasy novella

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I have a story called Today, I Am out in If There's Anyone Left Vol 6! It's only for purchase right now but I think will go online to read at some point. a.co/d/029Ty44y

“The Professor of Desire Presents,” out in ergot. (by me) www.ergot.press/authors/Anne...

I had one out at Lightspeed! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ghos... (And this one is a reprint, but it went online for the first time in June: www.adventitious.net/stories/the-...)

Ghost in the Tank - Lightspeed Magazine

The first time you killed me, I cried like a baby. Stupid, stupid, to cry over something make-believe—stupid and ugly and pathetic, too, when already the only thing I wanted in the world was for you ...

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Issue 2 of OTHERSIDE came out in June, packed with queer SFF! 💜 othersidespec.com/issues/issue...

WHAT ROUGH BEAST? by Bryn Hammond Novella, came out June 15 from Brackenbury Books Lesbian sword & sorcery newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-tag/...

Also, my flash story "The Other Side" is in Poets in the Pines' anthology "Made from Midnight: Delirium." Trans protagonist, surreal cosmic snails.

My transgender robot pirate story "Freebooter" came out as Escape Pod #1050! 🤖🏴‍☠️

Escape Pod 1050: Freebooter

The pirate bot was easy to miss. Squatting against a wall on the periphery of the Saint-Denis Heritage Market, it looked like an ordinary if outmoded HomeBot—a Gen One, the skinny bipedal kind that…

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Thank you Charles!! My story, “For a Handful of Salted Teeth” was published in @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

For a Handful of Salted Teeth

What I’d taken for white beads are actually human teeth, mixed with white crystals I identified (via taste, to Mole’s horror) as salt. Mole looks at the mixture and shudders. I don’t know how to ex…

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TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN JUNE 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's May's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

Some Queer Short SFF - May 2026 | Charles Payseur

Pride Month might be wrapping up for many people, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to stop paying attention to awesome queer short SFF. Now,

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In honor of today's Cozy Up with Fantasy sale, this week's Friday snippet comes from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, which you can snap up today for just 99c/99p: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave And check out all the other fabulous books on offer, too! cozyupwithfantasy.com #romancelandia

Hi all! I've updated my ko-fi with some good news! Also, we're still crowdfunding for my mom's cancer treatment. This week's goal is $750 for meds and utilities, so if you can help by sharing/contributing it'd be awesome! ♥️ #mutualaid #helpsky #trans #queer #cancer ko-fi.com/post/Some-go...

Some good news!

Hailey Kaas published a post on Ko-fi

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