To reach the open sea, they’d have to be relentless and brave.
13 June 2018
Tammy Sparks at Books, Bones & Buffy: Adventures in Speculative Fiction interviewed me about this kickstarter! “Because June is Pride Month, it’s particularly fitting that your Kickstarter is so inclusive, with a variety of sexual and gender identifying writers.” Very grateful for her generosity.
We’ve also been selected as a “Project We Love” by Kickstarter, which is pretty dang cool.
Today, we spotlight two stories of watery creatures providing a way past abuse.
“A Fish Tale†by Sabrina Vourvoulias in Sharp & Sugar Tooth:
and “Think, Baby Turtle†by Mingzhao Xu in Broad Knowledge (from which today’s title comes):
About the Authors
Sabrina Vourvoulias is the author of Ink (Crossed Genres, 2012; Rosarium Publishing, 2018), a novel that draws on her memories of Guatemala’s armed internal conflict, and of the Latinx experience in the United States. It was named to Latinidad’s Best Books of 2012. Her short stories have appeared at Uncanny Magazine, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Crossed Genres, and in a number of anthologies, including Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History (Fox and Older, eds.), The Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015 (Twelfth Planet Press; Krasnostein and Rios, eds.), and Latino/a Rising (Wings Press; Goodwin, ed.) in 2017. She is a the Managing Editor of Integrated Media at NBC10/Telemundo62 in Philadelphia, and her columns and commentary have appeared at Philadelphia Magazine, City and State Pennsylvania, and The Guardian US. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, daughter and a dog who rules the household.
Mingzhao Xu immigrated to the United States from China as a child. One of her greatest joys in life is using fiction to highlight the humor, challenges and pathos of her childhood. She currently lives in California.
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