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How Beautiful Things Disappear (Part 1)
“Are you finished?” “No. Be patient,” Alexandru scolds. He shifts, lifting Vasile’s arm out of the way and adjusting his grip on the ballpoint pen. They sit next to the mussed bed, the floor around them cleared of rubbish, their suitcases and twin violins resting in front of the window...
speculative fiction, historical Romania, gay character, trans male character, main character death, violence, homophobia, transphobia, descriptions of gore, implied past abuse, implied sexual assault
2025-06-22
有缘无份
I meet him fifteen miles off Savageton, Wyoming. The fading dregs of daylight cast long shadows over yellow ranch country when I see the truck riding my direction, and I step into the road and wave. It slows. The windows are down; one hand is on the skinny wheel, the...
contemporary fiction, rural America, western America, Chinese-American character, gay character, trans male character, country boy x city boy, one-night stand, erotica
2024-09-15
A preliminary taxonomy of six-limbed vertebrates
The descent of modern tetrapodal vertebrates from their four-lobe-finned ancestors has inspired significant investigation of the evolution of hexapodal vertebrates—or perhaps a better description would be tetrapodal-dipterous vertebrates—from their own lobe-finned ancestors. Studying a diverse range of the most common tetrapodal-dipterous vertebrate species, we used morphological characters to assemble a...
fantasy, journal article abstract, fictional science, illustrated, phylogenetic tree, zoology
2023-12-14
The Beauty in the Unexpected
Sawyer finally found the cambion at sunset, lying on the rocky bank by the lakeshore next to a spiky green-and-orange bush. For someone that was currently so badly hidden, their brick-red skin standing out against the pale rocks, the cambion had been frustratingly difficult to track over the past two...
speculative fiction, urban fantasy, national park, Chinese-Canadian character, gay character, trans male character, grumpy x sunshine, magical creature, mental health, nature
2022-05-04
Cireașă Dulce
Cireașă Dulce. That was the name of the band.
People thought they were fairies with the way they could play, gathering a crowd of hundreds just on the street, their instrument cases open at their feet for modest donations. Each time he saw them, Dragavei could do nothing but stare...speculative fiction, Romania, queer character, trans male character, folk band, folk music, found family, runaway, transphobia
2021-08-19