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The Honeys by Ryan La Sala (Genderfluid, YA) The Sacrifice by Rin Chupeco (YA) Hell Followed With Us and The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (YA) Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin  Tell Me I’m Worthless and Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt, by Alison Rumfitt Bonus; Coming in 2024: Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin and The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo Double Bonus: These are all…

The occasion: all tRaum titles, including my high fantasy MAEJ, are on sale for a dollar apiece on Itch through the end of the month: https://traumbooks.itch.io/

You should read them all. (The books. Not necessarily the reviews.)

1

A + E by Ryszard Merey

“Only when two hearts synchronise, becoming ready to risk vulnerability at the same time and at the right time, can young souls finally meet.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/a-e-a-review-f79fc11b0f1c?sk=0fbfbeb9c81654a0317a8aec96f37c9d

2

Airy Nothing by Clarissa Pattern

“…explores blurred boundaries — between female and male, between gay and hetero, between the mundane and the fae, and between theatre and real life.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/airy-nothing-a-review-a784ede6bafd?sk=54379d6058f7d5f736eb9ca2e0c05c4f

3

It Helps with the Blues by Bryan Cebulski

“…to desire to relate to someone can be to burden them — to be infatuated can be to instrumentalise another — to long for another human, that most natural of impulses, can be dehumanising.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/it-helps-with-the-blues-a-review-8d3864dc5f6e?sk=f3e3dbb1998a5aeb7a003667947c0f56

4

Corrupted Vessels by Briar Ripley Page

This “quick read with strong prose […] maps the psychology of queer characters enmeshed in extremist mysticism against a backdrop of mental illness and the occult.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/corrupted-vessels-a-review-d8002cb567e6?sk=8abc14a90f58b4ef64890bf5b829bf36

5

Noema by Dael Akkerman

The more we learn about Maya, “the closer we get to a picture of who she is: sometimes perceptible, sometimes oracular, sometimes murdered, sometimes a bird.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/noema-a-review-a9aabdea3a61?sk=e69e0446a03d2a78e5286274cacdd632

6

Query by Zilla Novikov

A “wickedly funny epistolary novella […] told entirely in the form of query letter after query letter” as well as an activist’s cri de coeur.

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/query-a-review-ac9227231ee0?sk=d184a7ace1a7922d9cfa3811138a59d5

7

Most Famous Short Film of All Time by Tucker Lieberman

“…a mélange of ideas in the best sense: not merely a jumble, but a philosophical corkboard bristling with a fantastical variety of pins, each connected to the other by a fractal web of coloured yarn.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/most-famous-short-film-of-all-time-a-review-f49998aa0631?sk=af2160f808928f4a82f2a07f11a46c17

8

Read and Then Burn This by Ryszard Merey

“No story quite grips me like one which I can imagine the author feeling a twinge of dread about releasing…”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/read-and-then-burn-this-a-review-e0f491283087?sk=fe76498d7abf06e4480d6743cdb3607d

9

Something’s Not Right by yves.

Stories “where the magical blends in to the humdrum, leaving you imbued with a mood of unease, or sombreness, or amusement, or half-smiling hope.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/somethings-not-right-a-review-6ab1363e694c?sk=e5e9f920029b96e175f7d0b54042a7b2

10

Darknesses by Lachelle Seville

A novel which “understands and subtly acknowledges this ambiguity of love. It is a tale of loving a creature whose manifestations are all illusions.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/darknesses-a-review-a333e9291560?sk=317a73438ccaafe4a876e7bd464d060d

11

Love/Aggression by June Martin

“…a sugar-rush of situational absurdity, wicked satire, hallucinatory imagery, and maximally burlesque characters…”

I'm so excited to present the COVER REVEAL for my debut graphic novel, SN_33P'sCoolZine.pdf! It's the story of a spunky little AI who is making a punk zine to cope with grief for its creator. It's Adventure Time meets I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream!

You can pre-order it here: https://fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/sn_33pscoolzine-pdf-by-tenacity-plys

Well, I got a couple more friends together to play MJ and Flash and oh my god