Description
From prehistory to the not-too-distant future, “Other & Different” features folklore, fantasy, gothic, speculative, supernatural, sci-fi, weird, horror, and contemporary fiction exploring what it is to be other or different.
Thirteen all new stories from: Busayo Akinmoju, Malik Berry, A.M. Gautam, Anita Goveas, Heather Haigh, Miriam H. Harrison, Anastasia Jill, Avra Margariti, Kyungseo Min, Samir Sirk Morató, Corinne Pollard, Jonathan Olfert, and Marianne Xenos.
The first six months of profits for Other & Different were donated to our two chosen causes North American non-profit Rainbow Railroad and UK charity Rainbow Migration.
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Contributors
The Kinsmen
(featured on Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction’s recommended reading List, 2023)
A young woman has to fulfil her role in burying a king.
BUSAYO AKINMOJUYou See Food, You Eat It
Ruminations over class position while eating homemade meals…
MALIK BERRYPower To The People
The fate of “undesirables” is determined by television voting.
A.M GAUTAMBelow The Horizon
Leena is isolated by her epilepsy and needs to break free.
ANITA GOVEASThe Shiny People
Can a socially awkward, grieving woman, find self-acceptance from the kindness of another?
HEATHER HAIGHMoons
A girl who lives under a sky with two moons struggles against the limiting narratives of her faith group.
MIRIAM H. HARRISONMermaid Tails and Tinfoil Hats
A young woman is Baker Acted and meets Miranda, another traumatised woman, in love with The Little Mermaid.
ANASTASIA JILLWhat grief tastes like
Two witches learn to navigate grief, companionship, and metamorphosis.
AVRA MARGARITIDear Name
An adventurous human finds herself face-to-face with an uncomfortable truth at the end of her journey.
KYUNGSEO MINMitosis
Necalli’s sixteenth birthday culminates in unexpected guts, gore and creation.
SAMIR SIRK MORATÓStrawberry Hearts
Three outcasts are trapped in the fire wreckage of a house.
CORINNE POLLARDWreckwood
On a stone age coastline where a sleeping God’s breath makes the air flammable, two down-and-out loners set sail to save the village that despises them.
JONATHAN OLFERTThe Changeling of Sneem
On a path between worlds, Joan Darcy hears an ancient story with a twist.
MARIANNE XENOSCover art
WILL HERON
