Crystal Koo
@crystalkoo.bsky.social
Backroads fictionist 🇵🇭🇭🇰🌈 http://cgskoo.wordpress.com/publications http://www.instagram.com/anewartistry
So pleased to have this in OTHERSIDE!! 🐦🔥
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 5d agoIssue 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 · 2w agoISSUE 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 · 4w 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
Thank you for the thoughtful recommendation, NM - really enjoyed reading what you got from it!
nm whitley@nmwhitley.bsky.social · 6mo 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...
Yay! 🍄
Heartlines Spec@heartlines-spec.com · 7mo agoOne week until Issue 10! Water, family, and death are big themes (with cryptids lurking throughout). Get the vibes before you dive deep: Short Fiction 🚜🛰️☄️ by @pbarmby.bsky.social 👣👣👣 by Rachel Esser 🍄🏚️🍄 by @crystalkoo.bsky.social 🏝️♊👩✈️ by @bookended-islal.bsky.social
Excited to be in Heartlines Spec this March!
Heartlines Spec@heartlines-spec.com · 8mo 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 · 10mo 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 · 10mo 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
