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While our main November activity has been running the crowdfunding Kickstarter to fund our anthology Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling, that doesn’t mean we’ve neglected our regular short story and art releases direct to backers of our Patreon! Read on to learn about our five new short stories, one new art piece, and the Patreon panel taking place later today!
First – Patreon backers at the $10/month and $25/month levels who also back the crowdfunding campaign for Monsterotica will get a bonus piece of merchandise as our THANK YOU for their exceptional support. For this campaign, we’re offering BACKERS CHOICE! We’ve chosen the art – the monstery toothy dux sticker created by Alessa Riel for the Monsterotica campaign – and backers will get their pick of an acrylic pin with an iridescent holo effect, a key chain with a red rainbow holo effect, or a magnet with a hologram effect!
Back our Patreon at the $10/month or $25/month level AND support our campaign to fund Monsterotica and claim your monstery dux merch bonus!
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New Explicit Imprint Stories:
Can’t Let Go by Dei Walker
modern with magic, f/f, underwater sex, tentacles
Excerpt:
The thrill of risk slides through her, warming her from the inside out. She curls her toes inside her flippers and takes another deep breath of cool, dry canned air.
The soft corals along the wall are pretty enough; one has a porcelain crab tucked into its fronds, and another the tiny shape of a pygmy seahorse, orange-pink with bumps to match its hiding place. There are wonders aplenty; she allows herself to snap a picture of the seahorse, then a second from a slightly different angle, as insurance.
When she lifts her head to continue swimming, the faint glow has moved farther away.
A cloud of bioluminescence moving like that? Her heart rate kicks up, interest piqued. Hope spreads in her chest. Something this unusual might be just what she needs.
Available to $25/month Patreon backers
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We the Hunters by Lyonel Loy
fantasy, m/m, monster x monster, vers characters
Excerpt:
He sees the flash of fiery gold at the far end of the lake, where the water is dark with the shadows of kelp forests. Shimmering fins flicker amidst the swaying fronds, carefree and careless and bold.
What need has a merman for wariness?
King of the lake’s deep waters, sharp-toothed and sharp-clawed and strong. Even the gryphon, with his lion’s strength and eagle’s talons, ought to be wary, but the merman is far too enticing a prize.
Available to $7/month Patreon backers and higher
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New General Imprint Stories:
My (24M) Cousin (23M) Fell in Love with One of Those Forest Mimics (???M?) and I Don’t Know What to Do by Nicola Kapron
modern, m/m, outsider point of view, formatted like a reddit post
Excerpt:
r/relationship_advice
u/ThrowawayOutOfTheWoods
You know those scary stories people tell around campfires and on dramatic horror vlogs about mysterious not-quite-human figures that slip into hiking groups and do all sorts of creepy stuff? Yeah. It’s one of those. He’s one of those? It’s hard to tell.
Available to all Patreon backers
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Memory Scars by Adele Gardner
sci fi, established f/f, androids and free will
Excerpt:
Construction. Repair. Rebuild. Each fills me with a creeping dread, something I can’t name because I’m not allowed any words for it.
Each time I wonder: Am I the same person I was before whatever disaster shut me down?
Available to $5/month Patreon backers and higher
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One Moon at a Time by R. L. Houck
modern supernatural setting, found family, lesbian main character, weres and creature shiftersExcerpt:
“Nice night, huh?” Lily leaned back on her palms and slanted her eyes to the side.
“I’ll call it a nice night if we make it to 6 a.m. without you turning wolf and trying to rip out my throat.”
Sagging in place, Lily scrubbed her palms down her thighs. At the end of the pass, she cupped her knees, staring at her abraded knuckles. “Do you think I’ll turn?”
Available to $10/month Patreon backers and higher
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Patreon Reward Art:
“Devour” by Aaron Kotze
This is a trim of a larger artwork. Aaron chose not to share the inspiration behind this piece.
Available to $5/month Patreon backers and higher
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and lastly, this month's Patreon panel is later today! The topic...
Description: Authoritarian regimes throughout history have sought to eliminate dissent in part by eliminating non-conformist art, while subverting what art they permit to be created to serve their dominant narratives. As much of the world makes a turn toward hard-right fascistic authoritarianism, many creators grapple with the stress, fear, and danger of living and creating despite threats to their livelihoods and very lives. In this panel, we’ll have a candid discussion of how others have faced these threats in the past and how we are doing so in our day-to-day lives. We will discuss both the risks and necessity of continuing to make art by and about people – queer, POC, gender-diverse, disabled, neurodiverse, etc. – whose voices authoritarian governments seek to suppress.
Date: Sunday, November 30
Time: 2 p.m. Eastern time
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