Heartbeats: Voices Against Oppression

by Jax Goss (Editor), M. Kate Allen (Contributor), K.L. Mabbs (Contributor)

Heartbeats: Voices Against Oppression was created as a collaboration between M. Kate Allen, Jax Goss of Solarwyrm Press, and Kristen Duvall of Fey Publishing. We wanted to create something that would speak powerfully for the many thousands of men, women and children worldwide who live enslaved and oppressed, while simultaneously raising funds for those who fight trafficking and slavery. In this book are stories of oppression and liberation, of empowerment and the stripping away of power, of enslavement and escape. Many are hard to read, many will break your hearts or make them soar, all are united in the idea that the use and abuse by some humans of other humans must stop. Every person who worked on this project did it for free, so that absolutely all the profits made from the book can go to notforsalecampaign.org, and the excellent work they do. By buying it, you are helping that work continue. May we someday live in a world where such work is not needed.

98 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 2014

About the author

Jax Goss is a streamer, editor, and writer. She is the human behind The Patchwork Raven, and spends a lot of time on Twitch and Discord making up stories and worlds with a bunch of RPGers. She is also the Mum behind the child who invented Wolfenoot.

She is a wandering South African who seems to have settled in New Zealand. She currently lives in Hamilton with her partner, three kids and a menageries of animals.

Jax has edited and compiled a number of anthologies, and her short stories have been published in several others.

She won a Highly Commended Prize in the Commonwealth Short Story Writing Competition for her short story Icarus in 2011.