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On alternating Thursdays, we release brand-new, usually queer short stories on Patreon for our backers there! Backers also get access to our back catalogue of Patreon release stories (100 and counting!) with how many they can access dependent on backer level. At the low end, $3/month backers get immediate access to 50 stories. It’s always a great time to become a Duck Prints Press Patreon supporter!
Check out our most recent four releases…
How the Story Ends by Genevieve Maxwell
modern with magic, hauntings, sapphic vibes
Excerpt:
Bethany gathered a reasonable pile of books in her hands, their pages filled with so many memories. She smiled with warmth recalling her favorite scenes and passages. She set the pile on one of the middle shelves against the left-hand side, angling the last book in the hopes they wouldn’t all slide down before she could get the next batch placed. Bethany didn’t own bookends, as her personal library contained more than enough books to fill the shelves.
Bethany turned back to the box for more books.
Whump.
Available to backers at the $10/month level and higher.
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Last Boat to Heaven by Max Jason Peterson
surreal apocalyptic magical realism with horror and death themes and a trans main character
Excerpt:
I knew that the end of the world was near when I woke one morning with my dead love in bed beside me. She hadn’t been gone long, so it didn’t seem strange to wake to her smile, that languid arm along my shoulder. Love doesn’t die, just fades away, and this one was fresh, so near I knew that one morning I would cut myself shaving, a bit too deep under the chin, and they’d find me on the floor.
“Hello,” said my Brynn, eyes bright beneath sandy bangs. “Wake up, lover.”
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Tainted by J. D. Harlock
fantasy with horror vibes, family feels, enduring The Terrors together
Excerpt:
The cold night had stretched on for longer than anyone in the lone cottage could remember. Windows had been bolted up with whatever the family could get their hands on, and every single hole and crack in the makeshift roof was carefully blocked with leftover pots and pans. Those who believed it was better to sleep through the whole affair retired early, hoping rest would ease their minds, but they found little comfort in the straw beds and animal-skin pillows they now had to get accustomed to.
This left Umm Kamila and her granddaughter, Nahla, by themselves in the parlor—the former humming hymns she recollected from a childhood that felt so long ago, the latter fidgeting with a contraption she had found in the last scavenge with the children of the other families stranded in their village.
Tainted by J. D. Harlock
fantasy with horror vibes, family feels, enduring The Terrors together
Excerpt:
The cold night had stretched on for longer than anyone in the lone cottage could remember. Windows had been bolted up with whatever the family could get their hands on, and every single hole and crack in the makeshift roof was carefully blocked with leftover pots and pans. Those who believed it was better to sleep through the whole affair retired early, hoping rest would ease their minds, but they found little comfort in the straw beds and animal-skin pillows they now had to get accustomed to.
This left Umm Kamila and her granddaughter, Nahla, by themselves in the parlor—the former humming hymns she recollected from a childhood that felt so long ago, the latter fidgeting with a contraption she had found in the last scavenge with the children of the other families stranded in their village.
Available to backers at the $7/month level and higher.
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Tough Job, Sweet Reward by Samantha M. Piper
sapphics! in! spaaaaaace! (and having sex)
Excerpt:
Cam dropped her towel and reached for the drawer that held their sleep clothes, but Mads’s hand darted out to stop her with a touch to her upper arm.
“Ah ah ah,” Mads said softly. Cam frowned in confusion. “First things first, I think you need a bit of self-care after the day you had.” Mads trailed her fingers down Cam’s arm. “And since I know you won’t take care of yourself properly, I’ll do it.”
Available to backers at the $7/month level and higher.
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We also recently released the November art reward for our backers at level $5/month and higher!
Samhain by Aceriee
Image is a trim of a larger piece.
Aceriee had this to say about the inspiration behind this piece: The illustration is (very) loosely inspired by an Irish myth about Morrigan and Dagda meeting on Samhain. Handfasting is an old tradition and Samhain represents new beginnings and rebirth. It’s also a day where the veil between the worlds are at their thinnest making it a perfect time to start something new while honoring lost loved ones.
Different versions available to different backers; all backers have access to at least one!
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Patreon backers at the $10/month level and $25/month level who also back our current Kickstarter campaign for A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” will also get bonus extra merch: 5 notecards + envelopes featuring a fourth rainbow Pride peacock design by A. A. Weston!
