Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• vii • Foreword (Ink: Queer Sci Fi's Eighth Annual Flash Fiction Contest) • essay by uncredited
• 3 • The Unmarked • short story by Lauren Triola
• 5 • Tense • short story by Alex Sobel
• 7 • Battleground • short story by Lynn Michaels
• 9 • S/He Who Remembers • short story by Connie Wilkins [as by Sacchi Green]
• 11 • The Fine Print • short story by Chisto Healy
• 12 • The Date-Book • short story by Isobel Granby
• 14 • Companions • short story by D. Grimm
• 16 • Soul Afire • short story by Tris Lawrence
• 18 • Indelible • short story by David Berger
• 19 • Graven Images • short story by Mary Newman
• 21 • A Most Rewarding Quest • short story by Laura Antoniou
• 23 • Sign on the Dotted Line • short story by Terry Poole
• 25 • Summoned • short story by Alex Silver
• 27 • Mixology • short story by Emilia Agrafojo
• 31 • To Share the Sky • short story by Allan Dyen-Shapiro
• 33 • Glossaderma • short story by Thea Nishimori
• 35 • Jumper • short story by Aubrey Zahn
• 37 • Cave Drawing • short story by Addison Albright
• 39 • Nexus • short story by Gordon Bonnet
• 41 • A Very Comfy Couch • short story by Comer
• 43 • EduTron 6000 + Principal Vertner 4Ever • short story by Brenna Harvey
• 45 • The Hurt Patch • short story by M. Walker
• 46 • Lydia's Back • short story by James Dunham
• 48 • Signed • short story by Amanda Cherry
• 50 • Subversion • short story by Sara Testarossa
• 55 • Devil and Advocates • short story by Kim Fielding
• 57 • The Autograph • short story by Tam Ames
• 59 • Unmoored • short story by Meghan Byers
• 61 • Inked • short story by Jeff Ronan
• 63 • The Midnight Librarian • short story by Orion O'Connell
• 65 • Fluid • short story by Bryan Crystal-Thursdton
• 67 • Writer's Blood • short story by Aron Caer
• 68 • Off the Wall • short story by Ainslie Lloyd
• 71 • Untitled • short story by A. Hunt
• 73 • How to Create a Monster • short story by April Kelley
• 75 • I Never Knew • short story by Eytan Bernstein
• 79 • On the Conjoined Practice of Demonology and Scribal Longhand • short story by Eason
• 81 • The Skinchanger's Art • short story by R. E. Andeen
• 83 • The Marks of a Knight • short story by Ada Maria Soto
• 84 • The Ink Reader • short story by Ryan Breadinc
• 86 • Indelible Ink • short story by Toshi Drake
• 88 • Livename • short story by Anna Stacy
• 90 • He Bleeds Ink • short story by Charlie Boynton
• 91 • Inkshader • short story by Taylor Ramage
• 93 • The Dragon's Price • short story by K. Mads
• 95 • Hidden Spell • short story by Nicole Dennis
• 97 • Moon Child • short story by Susan Stradiotto
• 99 • Not Alone • short story by Minerva Cerridwen
• 100 • Heart Bound in Ink • short story by Kim Katil
• 102 • Confessions of an Inkaholic • short story by P. Egry
• 107 • Printed Love • short story by Robin Reed
• 109 • Ink is Memory • short story by R. Moler
• 110 • Ballpoint • short story by Gwen Coholan
• 111 • The Aerium • short story by Jen Rivers
• 113 • Blood • short story by R. J. Scott
• 115 • Love Is Blind • short story by Sheila Finch
• 117 • Meet Cute • short story by Adrik Kemp
• 119 • Blank as the Page • short story by Steve Fuson
• 121 • Dragon Blood • short story by Benoit Lafortune
• 122 • Butterfly • short story by Georgia Cook
• 124 • Toby's Tattoo • short story by Jamie Sands
• 129 • The Collection • short story by Elliot Cooper
• 131 • Temporary/Permanent • short story by Brooke K. Bell
• 132 • Impending Affair • short story by H. Argent
• 134 • The Rose Tattoo • short story by Helen M. Merrick
• 136 • I Am Happy to Be Here Today Foster • short story by Elsa M. Carruthers
• 138 • Blind Date • short story by Rainie Zenith
• 140 • A Flacon of Ink • short story by Dean Wells
• 141 • Squid on the Beach • short story by Claire Davon
• 145 • Faith and the Thorncutters • short story by Die Booth
• 147 • Power • short story by Aten
• 149 • Inksticks and Paper Swans • short story by Jamie Lackey
• 151 • Belonging • short story by Dale Parnell
• 153 • The Summoning • short story by Dale Jordan
• 155 • Mending • short story by Blaine D. Arden
• 156 • Rougarous Inc. • short story by Laura J. Kelly
• 157 • Spider Legs • short story by F. Schraeder
• 159 • Panagram • short story by Sheryl R. Hayes
• 161 • Openings • short story by L. Noone
• 163 • For Posterity's Sake • short story by Nathaniel Taff
• 165 • It's What's Inside That Counts • short story by Nathan Alling Long
• 167 • A Prisoner and a Captain • short story by B. Eyre
• 168 • Cursebreaker • short story by Brooke Prado
• 169 • Colours of Union • short story by S. Reinholt
• 173 • Pandora's Row • short story by Jasie Gale
• 175 • The Flight of the Telorites • short story by Lou Sylvre
• 177 • To Have and to Hold and to Hold and to Hold • short story by X. Kelly
• 179 • Oddities • short story by Naomi Tajedler
• 181 • The Morning After • short story by Raine Norman
• 183 • The Present • short story by Monique Cuillerier
• 185 • Unfamiliar Waters • short story by Bridget Cassidy
• 187 • Free Hugs • short story by Paula McGrath
• 189 • Soullink • short story by Ava Kelly
• 191 • rough draft #9/grocery list • short story by Magaly Garcia
• 193 • Off-Spectrum • short story by Kelly Haworth
• 195 • The Tattooist • short story by Jessica M. Kormos
• 199 • Alternate Endings • short story by Jorane G. Barton
• 200 • The Colors of Fate • short story by Geneva Vand
• 202 • The Angel with Demon Blood • short story by Lily Luchesi
• 204 • Love's Portrait • short story by S. Murphy
• 206 • For Death Doesn't Part • short story by Taylor Roth
• 208 • A Dish Served Hot • short story by Jacqui Greaves
• 209 • Told • short story by Rodello Santos
• 211 • The Pen is Mightier • short story by Kaje Harper
• 213 • Shadowbird • short story by R. J. Mustafa
• 215 • Heart Ink • short story by Amarilys Acosta
• 219 • Babbler • short story by Joe Baumann
• 221 • Aedan • short story by Herminia Root
• 223 • Stranger Stories • short story by Anja Hendrikse Liu
• 225 • Guilty Pleasure Reading • short story by Bradley Robert Parks
• 226 • The Muse's Gift • short story by Fiona Moore
• 228 • The Final Line • short story by M. Burns
• 230 • Future Perfect • short story by T. Wyant
• 232 • Right Place, Right Time • short story by Ryley Banks
• 234 • All Myths Are True (but some are truer than others) • short story by Rory Ni Coileain
• 236 • Risotto Nero • short story by L. McCartney
• 238 • Just a Nudge • short story by W. Murks
• 240 • The Inker, the Cat and the Parrot • short story by Barbara Krasnoff
• 242 • So Let it Be Written, So Let It Be Done • short story by S. R. Jones
• 243 • Renaming • short story by Ziggy Schutz
• 245 • Proof in the Telling • short story by Rina Youngblood