Joy

by S. Kay

Joy Barnes is a Vancouver, BC graphic designer who mediates her identity through sultry selfies she posts on her site for a fandom. She also shares poetry and micropoetry online, while aspiring to be published. But although she's inspired by a hot virtual relationship with her internet boyfriend, everything else falls apart, in a tornado of relentless rejection. She is bent on survival, while addressing the world through electronic devices.

92 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

S. Kay is a quick processing @blueberrio, zapping tweet-sized stories to analyze future and fact. A Canadian Air Force brat who moved often, she now lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She is a queer, neurodiverse author.

Her debut book RELIANT is an apocalypse in tweets. JOY explores relentless rejection through multiple electronic devices in a novella. LOST IN THE LAND OF BEARS (July 2016) is a cross-genre tale-in-tweets with quirky creatures and machines in the forest.

Stories also appear in the anthologies Outliers of Speculative Fiction, 140 and Counting, and On a Narrow Windowsill. Follow @blueberrio for new stories.