JULY 2023

The Bitter Drop by Isak Bloom | 5 out of 5

"Secondary-world modern fantasy about a newly-established commune, narrated by Lev/Lyubov Morgenshtern — ex-rabbi, red yid, bigender flamer and inveterate cruiser."

Death in the Mouth: An Anthology of Original Horror by People of Color Vol 1 edited by Sloane Leong and Cassie Hart | 3.8 out of 5

"What is horror to those living in the margins?Where terror is systematized and in the very air everyone happily breathes?A misheard word

The thud of boots.

An impossible color.

A foreign growth.

DEATH IN THE MOUTH is a horror anthology showcasing BIPOC and other ethnically marginalized writers and artists from around the world. It features 26 short stories accompanied by 26 original illustrations spanning across genre and time, from real and fictive worlds, all while exploring new and unique manifestations of horror."

Danny Phantom: A Glitch in Time by Gabriela Epstein | 5 out of 5

"This all-new middle-grade graphic novel based on Nickelodeon's animated series Danny Phantom takes readers on a time traveling adventure that takes place directly after the series finale with the original ghost gang: Danny Fenton and his best friends Sam Manson and Tucker Foley! When the gang starts experiences time travel glitches, Danny's archnemesis Vlad Masters arrives on his doorstep with terrifying news: Dark Danny has escaped his prison!

Danny must then get his friends together and partner with Vlad to jump through time and space and unlock secrets of the Ghost Zone! But can they make it back to Amity Park before Dark Danny destroys the ghost gang's entire world?"

being chronically ill sucks! by sabrina sims | 4 out of 5

"As a chronically ill person, I’ve often felt like the people around me don’t know what I’m going through. I created a guide about my experiences with the conditions I have. This is for people who are struggling with chronic illness and disability. People can also read this to learn about what it’s like to live with fibromyalgia, chronic headaches and TMJ (jaw joint) dysfunction."

emotions are weird by sabrina sims | 4 out of 5

"A zine featuring cute hand drawn emoticons/emojis illustrating oddly specific emotions, such as feeling like mush or being "introverted out"."

Prokaryote Season by Leo Fox | 4.8 out of 5

"Sydney and Laurelie are best friends searching for the contentment of oblivion. Failing that, they'd like to be adored. Laurelie, by their caustic boyfriend Trip, and Sydney by Laurelie. On a typical night partying in the woods, Sydney grows frustrated with their unrequited obsession for Laurelie, and asks for a wish to be granted by the curious cosmic creature Starman. Not only will Laurelie love Sydney, but Laurelie will be dependent on them — will need to be saved by them. When the wish becomes deadly serious, Sydney and Trip will be forced to figure out how to save Laurelie for real, or risk losing the person most important to them both."

CO/NOTATIONS by [sarah] Cavar | 5 out of 5

NOTE: this work doesn't have a description so i'll be listing a quote of praise that i found sums it up well

“A critically hybrid text, Cavar’s CO/NOTATIONS explores what it means to ‘unwoman’ as an artistic craft, theoretical methodology, and ontological position. Through lyrical rumination and a braided deconstruction of gender, ‘unwomaning’ becomes the shedding of normative gender roles, the expansion of femininity beyond the biological category of ‘female,’ and an experimental reckoning into ‘transreality.’ How can we understand transness beyond medical, legal, and social categories? What are the radical potentialities of trans aesthetics, as we consider gender’s psychic and material affects on/in the body-mind? How can we engage in conversations about gender under a narrative of autonomy and transformative (un)belonging? The speaker asks, ‘What if I (still) don’t love my body and never did?’ Maybe coming into transreality is not the promise of belonging in/to one’s body, but the fierce and unrelenting longing to find happiness and love outside the cisgender realities that confine us.”

PUNCHLINE REMAINS THE SAME (or ASH/DUST) by atlas st. cloud | 4 out of 5

"in PUNCHLINE REMAINS THE SAME st. cloud argues for & against the need to mourn & say goodbye to pieces of ourselves. using three angels of the lord & a Conspicuously Placed Fern, st cloud follows his own advice & has a conversation with the Self to dig beneath the dissociation & see down to the marrow of it."

Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong | 5 out of 5

"A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty."

Adversary by Blue Delliquanti | 5 out of 5

"Minneapolis, 2021. Curtis is newly out, single, and ready to take his life in a different direction. Anton is a mysterious young man who recognizes Curtis from their pre-pandemic lives and reacquaints himself in a way Curtis isn’t entirely prepared for. A graphic novella about trust and failure."

Tszashou by Salamatullah | 4 out of 5

"Tszashou: v. An Ixaili play on words due from the similarity of the characters in tsâshou, meaning rest, and shazhou, meaning lesbian. First seen in a poem by 4th Century Ixaili poet Lialiaxl Szuñuo’pȳ."

Lechuza by Salamatullah | 5 out of 5

NOTE: this story doesn't have a description so i will write my own!

A horror story about a Mexican boy encountering Lechuaza and all that Lechuaza brings