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Featured January 24, 2021

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Fiction Series: Complete 12 Chapters

Magnificent

Updated May 24, 2020 · 22,285 words (82 minutes) · 2 likes · 2196 views

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Born into a superhero family, all Magnificent ever wanted to do was help save the world. But is the world ready for a genderqueer superhero? Magnificent will find out.

Novae Caelum generously made this novella free to read on Curious Fictions to help bolster nonbinary representation, which is still a very small part of traditional publishing. If you like it, please consider subscribing to Novae's work, or sending star a tip.

Author’s content note: This story is raw and hits on a lot of raw issues, including homophobia, transphobia, bullying, gender dysphoria, depression, and suicidal ideation. It also includes learning self-worth, coming into your own, acceptance by those you love, acceptance of yourself, finding your power, and soaring above all you’ve been through. It has a happy, triumphant ending. Please read with self-care.

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Charlotte Platt

Grandma Jam

Published Aug 14, 2019 · 1,000 words (4 minutes) · 541 views

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Shortlisted for the WRITE festival's short story competition (https://theworduk.org/write-festival/) and included in this year's anthology, Grandma Jam is a story about a young man working night shift and making a new friend, of sorts.

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"Digging" is now included in a podcast!

Published Aug 6, 2019 · 97 words (1 minute) · 447 views

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My short story Digging has been made into part of a podcast by the fabulous people over at Monsters Out of The Closet, link below!

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Novae Caelum

Two Galaxies Colliding

Published Jul 26, 2019 · 942 words (4 minutes) · 1 like · 1023 views

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"We met like two galaxies, drifting together on the dance floor of Prince Je-Haran Em-Groth’s tri-union afterparty, caught in each other’s gravities." | Two women from different worlds and a law that punishes interspecies relationships by death. Laws can change, but with two very different species in the first steps of diplomatic relations, what might be the cost?

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Novae Caelum

Rainbows and Happiness: All My LGBTQIA Stories on Curious Fictions

Published Jun 10, 2019 · 536 words (2 minutes) · 1253 views

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A list of all my queer fic on Curious Fictions (it's quite a lot!) in one place for happy Pride Month reading happiness!

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Featured June 13, 2019

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Novae Caelum

Possibilities of a Quantum Soul

Published Jun 6, 2019 · 1,025 words (4 minutes) · 7 likes · 1714 views

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A human being with a quantum soul contains many possible lives and identities. If you unmake one of those lives, is it theft, murder, or none of the above? Dari struggles to find the woman responsible and reclaim their own identity.

Holly Heisey is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer whose work has appeared in Escape Pod, Transcendent 2, F&SF, SciFutures, and more. They generously make many of their #ownvoices stories available under a Creative Commons license, and share a roundup of all their LGBTQIA work on Curious Fictions here.

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