the landscape of your childhood is full of ticks and bad municipal water

Cosy speculative fiction with its focus on community and everyday life is uniquely shaped to celebrate the power of all types of relationships and to demonstrate a world of what people can achieve by working together and respecting one another. Yet much of this potential is currently not being realised as so many narratives have become less about finding family and more about fitting oneself into amatonormative society.

a pressure cooker of breath and sweat