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Nic Anstett

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she/her 🏳️‍⚧️ writer of queer things. Lover of dinosaurs

Stories in One Story, Witness Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North,
Lightspeed, and other cool places. Represented by Erin Harris @ Folio Literary

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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

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“‘Grandma… Why are we brown?’
 
The grandmother puts down the rifle she’s been cleaning.”

Today’s queer story is “Afternoon Tea” by Camila Sosa Villada and translated by Kit Maude!

www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/afte...

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It's such an honor to see my story “Instructions on Meeting the Man Pretending to Be Your Husband” on this year’s Wigleaf Top 50 list. I'm very grateful that to see this creepy, gay little story getting some love!

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I love that some speculative fiction collections make space in the back of the book for the author to explain the origins of each story. It’s such a fun touch and was really helpful to me as an early writer. I wish it was more commonplace to do this in litfic as well.

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"The tower is like a tree among the never-ending trees, he says. You can see all sides, like an owl can turn its head in a full circle."

Today's queer story is "In a Village That No One Has Ever Heard Of" by Chi Siegel!
americanliteraryreview.com/2024/03/27/c...

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“Right before her twenty-fifth birthday, Chacha shaved her head, shearing the long black hair I’d known my entire life down to tiny-ass stumps.”

Today’s queer story is “Papel Picado” by A.J. Rodriguez!

www.thecommononline.org/papel-picado/

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then i asked my dimetrodon with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would i yes to say yes my epaxial sail muscles & first i put my forelegs around him yes & drew him down to me so he could feel my spines all lamellar bone yes & his heart was going like a mammal & yes i said yes i will yes

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If I ever had the resources to do so, I’d love to edit an anthology of literary dinosaur fiction. We don’t have enough lyric short stories about triceratops and somebody needs to do something about that.

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Fully prepared to shun this outfit if they show their faces here. SEEN publishing is anti-queer and probably especially anti-trans and they're probably organizing to smother books that aren't cuddled up to the kyriarchy. And anonymous, of course. it said this was my one free article for the month

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