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GlitterShip Year Two
The complete second year of GlitterShip magazine.A witch living in a graveyard for disobedient women. Slow-moving aliens filling the skies. A determined gumiho chef unable to taste their own cooking. Death masquerading in the guise of an elderly woman who crashes funerals for the sandwiches. Superheroes who make toast with their laser eye vision. A future expedition making sense of dilapidated 20th century technology. You'll find everything from high fantasy to hard science fiction in GlitterShip Year Two, and all of it queer. Within these pages, you'll find more than 30 short stories and poems by authors both established and new.
Table of Contents:
The Last Spell of the Raven by Sebastian Strange
Cooking With Closed Mouths by Kerry Truong
Mercy by Susan Jane Bigelow
A Seduction by a Sister of the Oneiroi by Hester J. Rook
Granny Death and the Drag King of London by A.J. Fitzwater
Curiosity Fruit Machine by S. Qiouyi Lu
The Need for Overwhelming Sensation by Bogi Takács
Oh, Give Me a Home by Nicole Kimberling
Skyscarves/Aurora by Joyce Chng
The Simplest Equation by Nicky Drayden
In Search of Stars by Matthew Bright
I stayed up all night waiting for the election results and then... by Joanne Rixon
The Slow Ones by JY Yang
Pastel Witch by Jacob Budenz
The Little Dream by Robin M. Eames
Cucumber by Penny Stirling
Circus-Boy Without a Safety Net by Craig Laurance Gidney
Ports of Perceptions by Izzy Wasserstein
The Passing Bell by Amy Griswold
becoming, c.a. 2000 by Charles Payseur
How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War by Rose Lemberg
The Pond by Aimee Ogden
The Subtler Art by Cat Rambo
Nostalgia by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
Songs of Love and Defense in the Dawn by Hester J. Rook
for she is the stars and the sun revolves around her by Agatha Tan
Corvus the Mighty by Simon Kewin
Smooth Stones and Empty Bones by Bennett North
Graveyard Girls on Paper Phoenix Wings by Andrea Tang
Seven Ideas for Algorithmic Shapeshifting by Bogi Takács
The Questing Beast by Amy Griswold
She Shines Like a Moon by Pear Nuallak
Parts by Paul Lorello
Do-Overs by Jennifer Lee Rossman
A Spell to Signal Home by A.C. Buchanan
Defining the Shapes of Ourselves by Jes Rausch
Lessons From a Clockwork Queen by Megan Arkenberg
Table of Contents:
The Last Spell of the Raven by Sebastian Strange
Cooking With Closed Mouths by Kerry Truong
Mercy by Susan Jane Bigelow
A Seduction by a Sister of the Oneiroi by Hester J. Rook
Granny Death and the Drag King of London by A.J. Fitzwater
Curiosity Fruit Machine by S. Qiouyi Lu
The Need for Overwhelming Sensation by Bogi Takács
Oh, Give Me a Home by Nicole Kimberling
Skyscarves/Aurora by Joyce Chng
The Simplest Equation by Nicky Drayden
In Search of Stars by Matthew Bright
I stayed up all night waiting for the election results and then... by Joanne Rixon
The Slow Ones by JY Yang
Pastel Witch by Jacob Budenz
The Little Dream by Robin M. Eames
Cucumber by Penny Stirling
Circus-Boy Without a Safety Net by Craig Laurance Gidney
Ports of Perceptions by Izzy Wasserstein
The Passing Bell by Amy Griswold
becoming, c.a. 2000 by Charles Payseur
How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War by Rose Lemberg
The Pond by Aimee Ogden
The Subtler Art by Cat Rambo
Nostalgia by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
Songs of Love and Defense in the Dawn by Hester J. Rook
for she is the stars and the sun revolves around her by Agatha Tan
Corvus the Mighty by Simon Kewin
Smooth Stones and Empty Bones by Bennett North
Graveyard Girls on Paper Phoenix Wings by Andrea Tang
Seven Ideas for Algorithmic Shapeshifting by Bogi Takács
The Questing Beast by Amy Griswold
She Shines Like a Moon by Pear Nuallak
Parts by Paul Lorello
Do-Overs by Jennifer Lee Rossman
A Spell to Signal Home by A.C. Buchanan
Defining the Shapes of Ourselves by Jes Rausch
Lessons From a Clockwork Queen by Megan Arkenberg
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First published November 25, 2018
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About the author
Keffy R.M. Kehrli
29 books32 followersKeffy is a speculative fiction writer currently living on Long Island, where he is working toward a PhD in Genetics.
His short fiction has been published in Apex, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, and Uncanny, among other places.
He is currently the editor and publisher of GlitterShip magazine.
His short fiction has been published in Apex, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, and Uncanny, among other places.
He is currently the editor and publisher of GlitterShip magazine.
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January 9, 2020
I only listened to the short story The Simplest Equation on LeVar Burton Reads podcast. It was a sweet tale of love, quite a difference from the toxic love found in the previous story of Levar's podcast. Two students sit near each other in a college math class, and Mariah hopes that this new alien girl Quallah, whose species is known for their math skills, can help tutor her. The two get to know one another and fall in love, but then Quallah gets an offer to go off-world to study so Mariah uses math equations to build her a declaration of her feelings. The unique conclusion proved that the simplest equation is love!
April 4, 2019
This collection of 37 stories includes happy friendship tales, explorations of grief, quirky ghost stories, clever poems, and surreal fairy tales. I'll admit, I'm recommending it because a handful of stories grabbed me and stuck in my mind. At a different moment in time, or for a different reader, it might be a different handful of stories. But the path from story to story was full of characters worth spending the time to know, and there were enough surprises and changes in course to make it worth reading the entire collection.
I'll give a shout out to a few authors: Nicky Drayden, Robin M. Eames, Penny Stirling, Bogi Takács, Andrea Tang, and Kerry Truong. However, the story I'm most going to pester everyone I know to read is "The Little Dream" by Robin M. Eames. It’s a fun, intersectional tale of small differences and not always knowing what's what. (Even if no doctor "in real life" is unsure of whether headaches stem from "superhearing or just hypersensitivity to light and sound," most people I know can relate to this sort of daily uncertainty, from doctors and others, about things that aren't so little when they're happening to you.) I also noticed this author and a few others I liked were from Australia or New Zealand, and I'm growing more and more curious about the speculative fiction scene over there. (I don't know if there's any way I could get to WorldCon 2020 in New Zealand, but I'm mentioning it for anyone else who might go!)
I'll give a shout out to a few authors: Nicky Drayden, Robin M. Eames, Penny Stirling, Bogi Takács, Andrea Tang, and Kerry Truong. However, the story I'm most going to pester everyone I know to read is "The Little Dream" by Robin M. Eames. It’s a fun, intersectional tale of small differences and not always knowing what's what. (Even if no doctor "in real life" is unsure of whether headaches stem from "superhearing or just hypersensitivity to light and sound," most people I know can relate to this sort of daily uncertainty, from doctors and others, about things that aren't so little when they're happening to you.) I also noticed this author and a few others I liked were from Australia or New Zealand, and I'm growing more and more curious about the speculative fiction scene over there. (I don't know if there's any way I could get to WorldCon 2020 in New Zealand, but I'm mentioning it for anyone else who might go!)
June 2, 2020
The Simplest Equation - Nicky Drayden
This is horribly sweet, and very romantic.
I don't like math, so that part was lost on me. But the romance was lovely.
The music was very well done.
I am very glad that I listened to this. I will gladly go look for other things by this author.
LeVar did a very excellent job reading this. And actually, he made me cry at the end when he was talking about his daughter. That was beautiful.
This is horribly sweet, and very romantic.
I don't like math, so that part was lost on me. But the romance was lovely.
The music was very well done.
I am very glad that I listened to this. I will gladly go look for other things by this author.
LeVar did a very excellent job reading this. And actually, he made me cry at the end when he was talking about his daughter. That was beautiful.
January 2, 2020
Wonderful story, not only from the romantic side but in that it shows an alien race with an alien mindset that is fundamentally different from humans, making it a great sci-fi tale.
January 12, 2020
I read this via LeVar Burton's podcast, "The Simplest Equation." I loved it!
August 9, 2019
Keffy R.M. Kehrli edits the anthology GlitterShip Year Two, containing more than 30 queer short stories and poems. Like most anthologies, some stories will suit certain readers and others won’t (it’s rare to have an editor’s tastes line up perfectly with your own–that’s just the nature of the beast). That’s a lot of stories, so I’ll just touch on a few that left strong impressions. I won’t comment on the poetry–I enjoy poetry, but I just don’t know what to say about it. I will say that I liked the poems in here, and didn’t think there were too many.
There’s a fantasy world in here in which once you cast four spells, you die, because you power your spells with pieces of your soul (Sebastian Strange’s The Last Spell of the Raven). Love that concept! There’s an AI that learns to grieve (Susan Jane Bigelow’s Mercy). Terraforming bugs on a planet that’s being re-made for settlement are the key when Gordon and Henry run into bad guys who threaten their lives and livelihoods (Nicole Kimberling’s Oh, Give Me a Home). I particularly liked a story of the apocalypse as caused by massive water-vapor-sucking aliens in the atmosphere–it focuses on one person’s reaction to realizing the end is coming, and it’s lovely (JY Yang’s The Slow Ones). Bennett North’s Smooth Stones and Empty Bones is a heartfelt story about two young women in love, one of whose mother is a witch.
In one tale, a person takes shelter in a town where the death bell rings before anyone dies–only to have it ring that night (Amy Griswold’s The Passing Bell). I loved Cat Rambo’s The Subtler Art, in which lovers The Dark (a retired assassin) and Tericatus (a wizard) make a bet as to whose art is subtler. It’s absolutely delightful. One story stars a super-villain, Vanessa, as she falls for a young woman, Elle. The end is predictable, but I found that didn’t matter because it was so lovely; I wanted more of this story (Agatha Tan’s For She Is the Stars and the Sun Revolves around Her). There’s a story with super-capable people, and Syl has only tiny powers so far. This story gave me a little bit of a sniffle (Robin M. Eames’s The Little Dream).
In Jennifer Lee Rossman’s Do-Overs, a time traveler tries again and again to woo the woman of her dreams, with mixed results. Very charming! I’ve read A.C. Buchanan’s A Spell to Signal Home before and I still really enjoyed it. A diplomat’s ship crashes on a secret planet. I wish this was the start to a novel. There’s a wonderful story about a clockwork queen and her bizarre little kingdom that I love. It’s told in a number of parts with a ‘lesson’ at the end of each one, and the absurdity and hilarity of the lessons really add to this charming tale (Megan Arkenberg’s Lessons from a Clockwork Queen).
The queerness of the stories comes in different measures and types. Some stories focus on a character’s gender identity or a non-heterosexual relationship. Others just have queer characters–some human, some not–existing in their worlds. All in all I really liked how it was handled. There’s also at least one disabled character (fibromyalgia).
A few stories are a bit surreal, and those aren’t my favorite kinds of stories. Maybe I’m just dull, but I like to be able to explicitly comprehend the stories I read. I enjoy many emotional reactions to the stories I read, but confusion isn’t one of them. Luckily this was only the case in a handful of stories. I found most of the tales in here to be utterly charming.
Original review posted on my blog: http://www.errantdreams.com/2019/08/r...
There’s a fantasy world in here in which once you cast four spells, you die, because you power your spells with pieces of your soul (Sebastian Strange’s The Last Spell of the Raven). Love that concept! There’s an AI that learns to grieve (Susan Jane Bigelow’s Mercy). Terraforming bugs on a planet that’s being re-made for settlement are the key when Gordon and Henry run into bad guys who threaten their lives and livelihoods (Nicole Kimberling’s Oh, Give Me a Home). I particularly liked a story of the apocalypse as caused by massive water-vapor-sucking aliens in the atmosphere–it focuses on one person’s reaction to realizing the end is coming, and it’s lovely (JY Yang’s The Slow Ones). Bennett North’s Smooth Stones and Empty Bones is a heartfelt story about two young women in love, one of whose mother is a witch.
In one tale, a person takes shelter in a town where the death bell rings before anyone dies–only to have it ring that night (Amy Griswold’s The Passing Bell). I loved Cat Rambo’s The Subtler Art, in which lovers The Dark (a retired assassin) and Tericatus (a wizard) make a bet as to whose art is subtler. It’s absolutely delightful. One story stars a super-villain, Vanessa, as she falls for a young woman, Elle. The end is predictable, but I found that didn’t matter because it was so lovely; I wanted more of this story (Agatha Tan’s For She Is the Stars and the Sun Revolves around Her). There’s a story with super-capable people, and Syl has only tiny powers so far. This story gave me a little bit of a sniffle (Robin M. Eames’s The Little Dream).
In Jennifer Lee Rossman’s Do-Overs, a time traveler tries again and again to woo the woman of her dreams, with mixed results. Very charming! I’ve read A.C. Buchanan’s A Spell to Signal Home before and I still really enjoyed it. A diplomat’s ship crashes on a secret planet. I wish this was the start to a novel. There’s a wonderful story about a clockwork queen and her bizarre little kingdom that I love. It’s told in a number of parts with a ‘lesson’ at the end of each one, and the absurdity and hilarity of the lessons really add to this charming tale (Megan Arkenberg’s Lessons from a Clockwork Queen).
The queerness of the stories comes in different measures and types. Some stories focus on a character’s gender identity or a non-heterosexual relationship. Others just have queer characters–some human, some not–existing in their worlds. All in all I really liked how it was handled. There’s also at least one disabled character (fibromyalgia).
A few stories are a bit surreal, and those aren’t my favorite kinds of stories. Maybe I’m just dull, but I like to be able to explicitly comprehend the stories I read. I enjoy many emotional reactions to the stories I read, but confusion isn’t one of them. Luckily this was only the case in a handful of stories. I found most of the tales in here to be utterly charming.
Original review posted on my blog: http://www.errantdreams.com/2019/08/r...
December 22, 2019
Sobbed. So gorgeous.
September 13, 2019
Absolutely stunning and beautifully story, so wonderfully read by LeVar Burton. I can’t wait to read more from her, and to listen to more of this spellbinding podcast.
September 8, 2019
I thought this story was fascinating, and unlike anything I'd read before, and that's what I'm all about.
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