His & Hers Magical Pets
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osprey_archerToday I have stories coming out in not one but TWO anthologies! They are a matched set, both on the theme of “magical pets,” one m/m and one f/f: His Magical Pet and Her Magical Pet. The proceeds for both are donated to OutRight Action International, which fights for the rights of LGBTQIA people worldwide.
I haven’t had the opportunity to read the His Magical Pet stories yet (except for my own story, of course, which is about two friends who pined over each other in high school, then reunited after years apart, and finally admit that they love each other with the help of the winged bichon frise that they rescued years ago) but I had the pleasure of proofreading Her Magical Pet so I have read all of those. A few of my favorites include:
“Beach Dirt on Bare Feet,” which is about a selkie! and a psychic! who connect with the help of the psychic’s dolphin friend!!! The psychic introduces the selkie to the pleasures of ice cream and it is adorable.
“As if the Sun Came to Shine,” which features a half-troll on the run from Fairyland and the changeling who has slowly gained her trust. I loved the prose and the worldbuilding in this one. Would love to see a longer story set in this world.
I also loved the prose and the worldbuilding in “How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster),” which features a human researcher coming through a portal into the Endless Dimension, which is… well, I’d better just quote the story:
“In the constantly changing void of the Endless Dimension, there is no such thing as people. There is only one person—or perhaps ‘being’ would be a better word. The constant, hungering entity that both is and fills the entire dimension: the Endless itself. Fragments of the Endless sometimes fracture off, spattering free like bubbles in a galactic pot of porridge, but they are quickly absorbed again, and anything they learned or thought or felt while they were separated is gobbled back up into the hungering one-ness.
Except for one.”
That one entity who broke off from the Endless is, of course, our other heroine. She is so fascinated by the researcher that she attempts to fashion herself a similar body, except it’s a bit awkward remembering to have arms instead of tentacles, and also that it’s necessary to have bones and so forth. Delightful. Probably my favorite story in the collection.
And of course I think that my own story, “The Mating Call of the Teleporting Warbler,” is delightful, although probably you shouldn’t trust the author on this sort of thing. It’s an epistolary story in which a winged cat carries messages between an established f/f couple, one of whom is on a summer fieldwork project studying the titular teleporting warblers. They reminisce about how they first got together.
I haven’t had the opportunity to read the His Magical Pet stories yet (except for my own story, of course, which is about two friends who pined over each other in high school, then reunited after years apart, and finally admit that they love each other with the help of the winged bichon frise that they rescued years ago) but I had the pleasure of proofreading Her Magical Pet so I have read all of those. A few of my favorites include:
“Beach Dirt on Bare Feet,” which is about a selkie! and a psychic! who connect with the help of the psychic’s dolphin friend!!! The psychic introduces the selkie to the pleasures of ice cream and it is adorable.
“As if the Sun Came to Shine,” which features a half-troll on the run from Fairyland and the changeling who has slowly gained her trust. I loved the prose and the worldbuilding in this one. Would love to see a longer story set in this world.
I also loved the prose and the worldbuilding in “How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster),” which features a human researcher coming through a portal into the Endless Dimension, which is… well, I’d better just quote the story:
“In the constantly changing void of the Endless Dimension, there is no such thing as people. There is only one person—or perhaps ‘being’ would be a better word. The constant, hungering entity that both is and fills the entire dimension: the Endless itself. Fragments of the Endless sometimes fracture off, spattering free like bubbles in a galactic pot of porridge, but they are quickly absorbed again, and anything they learned or thought or felt while they were separated is gobbled back up into the hungering one-ness.
Except for one.”
That one entity who broke off from the Endless is, of course, our other heroine. She is so fascinated by the researcher that she attempts to fashion herself a similar body, except it’s a bit awkward remembering to have arms instead of tentacles, and also that it’s necessary to have bones and so forth. Delightful. Probably my favorite story in the collection.
And of course I think that my own story, “The Mating Call of the Teleporting Warbler,” is delightful, although probably you shouldn’t trust the author on this sort of thing. It’s an epistolary story in which a winged cat carries messages between an established f/f couple, one of whom is on a summer fieldwork project studying the titular teleporting warblers. They reminisce about how they first got together.
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Date: 2020-10-16 03:07 pm (UTC)The endless dimension story sounds good too!
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