Lisa Cai

@lisacai.bsky.social

She/her | From Toronto, Canada | Writes SFFH | Head of ToWriMo | Stories in Diabolical Plots, The Dark, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, and others | Brave New Weird nominee | #amquerying https://lisacai.carrd.co/

Finally, some updates. All copyedits for SUFFERING THE OTHER have been rolled in, and we have a new ARC. A few last tweaks and some proofreading, then it will be ready for publication. I plan to open up pre-orders this week, with shipping in late September.

Two Advance Reader Copies of the book SUFFERING THE OTHER, next to a stack of small promo postcards advertising the book. The cover art (by Rew X) shows a magnificent many-tailed and winged golden creature soaring towards the upper right, while dozens of evil-looking snake creatures rain down towards the lower left. It is beautiful.

Suffering the Other – table of contents

16 original stories and 8 reprints (indicated with **), arranged here alphabetically by author name.

Nadia Bulkin -- Infested **
Lisa Cai -- The Eighth Cigarette **
Matthew Cheney -- Queer Horror, and Other Stories
Jennifer DeLeskie -- You Shall Love Your Crooked Neighbor with Your Crooked Heart
Kurt Fawver -- The KnowQuest AI Chatbot Answers All Your Questions About Britemol C
Robin Rose Graves -- Her True Face
Alexander Hay -- LEAD **
Bitter Karella -- The Divine Feminine
Gwendolyn Kiste -- My Sister, the Abyss
Jonathan Lees -- To Those That Have Lost Hope
Laura Mauro -- Ptichka **
David Peak -- Crawling Out of Black Sun
Marigold Rowell -- Salt Blossoms
Erica Ruppert -- Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea
Cheyenne Shaffer -- Ursula the Powerful **
A. J. Sharpe -- Sore Thumb
Clint Smith -- “January Sick”
J. J. Steinfeld -- The Suicide Inspector **
Bogi Takács -- A Technical Term, Like Privilege **
Jeffrey Thomas -- Song of the Loved
Lee Thomas -- Kisses from the Pain Chamber
Pamela Weis -- An Abomination
A.C. Wise -- Sea-Wives
Wen Wen Yang -- Ghost Festival in the Desert **

Cover art and design by RewX
Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan

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