Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• vii • Foreword (Ink: Queer Sci Fi's Eighth Annual Flash Fiction Contest) • (2021) • essay by uncredited
• 3 • The Unmarked • (2021) • short story by Lauren Triola
• 5 • Tense • (2021) • short story by Alex Sobel
• 7 • Battleground • (2021) • short story by Lynn Michaels
• 9 • S/He Who Remembers • (2021) • short story by Connie Wilkins [as by Sacchi Green]
• 11 • The Fine Print • (2021) • short story by Chisto Healy
• 12 • The Date-Book • (2021) • short story by Isobel Granby
• 14 • Companions • (2021) • short story by D. Grimm
• 16 • Soul Afire • (2021) • short story by Tris Lawrence
• 18 • Indelible • (2021) • short story by David Berger
• 19 • Graven Images • (2021) • short story by Mary Newman
• 21 • A Most Rewarding Quest • (2021) • short story by Laura Antoniou
• 23 • Sign on the Dotted Line • (2021) • short story by Terry Poole
• 25 • Summoned • (2021) • short story by Alex Silver
• 27 • Mixology • (2021) • short story by Emilia Agrafojo
• 31 • To Share the Sky • (2021) • short story by Allan Dyen-Shapiro
• 33 • Glossaderma • (2021) • short story by Thea Nishimori
• 35 • Jumper • (2021) • short story by Aubrey Zahn
• 37 • Cave Drawing • (2021) • short story by Addison Albright
• 39 • Nexus • (2021) • short story by Gordon Bonnet
• 41 • A Very Comfy Couch • (2021) • short story by Comer
• 43 • EduTron 6000 + Principal Vertner 4Ever • (2021) • short story by Brenna Harvey
• 45 • The Hurt Patch • (2021) • short story by M. Walker
• 46 • Lydia's Back • (2021) • short story by James Dunham
• 48 • Signed • (2021) • short story by Amanda Cherry
• 50 • Subversion • (2021) • short story by Sara Testarossa
• 55 • Devil and Advocates • (2021) • short story by Kim Fielding
• 57 • The Autograph • (2021) • short story by Tam Ames
• 59 • Unmoored • (2021) • short story by Meghan Byers
• 61 • Inked • (2021) • short story by Jeff Ronan
• 63 • The Midnight Librarian • (2021) • short story by Orion O'Connell
• 65 • Fluid • (2021) • short story by Bryan Crystal-Thursdton
• 67 • Writer's Blood • (2021) • short story by Aron Caer
• 68 • Off the Wall • (2021) • short story by Ainslie Lloyd
• 71 • Untitled • (2021) • short story by A. Hunt
• 73 • How to Create a Monster • (2021) • short story by April Kelley
• 75 • I Never Knew • (2021) • short story by Eytan Bernstein
• 79 • On the Conjoined Practice of Demonology and Scribal Longhand • (2021) • short story by Eason
• 81 • The Skinchanger's Art • (2021) • short story by R. E. Andeen
• 83 • The Marks of a Knight • (2021) • short story by Ada Maria Soto
• 84 • The Ink Reader • (2021) • short story by Ryan Breadinc
• 86 • Indelible Ink • (2021) • short story by Toshi Drake
• 88 • Livename • (2021) • short story by Anna Stacy
• 90 • He Bleeds Ink • (2021) • short story by Charlie Boynton
• 91 • Inkshader • (2021) • short story by Taylor Ramage
• 93 • The Dragon's Price • (2021) • short story by K. Mads
• 95 • Hidden Spell • (2021) • short story by Nicole Dennis
• 97 • Moon Child • (2021) • short story by Susan Stradiotto
• 99 • Not Alone • (2021) • short story by Minerva Cerridwen
• 100 • Heart Bound in Ink • (2021) • short story by Kim Katil
• 102 • Confessions of an Inkaholic • (2021) • short story by P. Egry
• 107 • Printed Love • (2021) • short story by Robin Reed
• 109 • Ink is Memory • (2021) • short story by R. Moler
• 110 • Ballpoint • (2021) • short story by Gwen Coholan
• 111 • The Aerium • (2021) • short story by Jen Rivers
• 113 • Blood • (2021) • short story by R. J. Scott
• 115 • Love Is Blind • (2021) • short story by Sheila Finch
• 117 • Meet Cute • (2021) • short story by Adrik Kemp
• 119 • Blank as the Page • (2021) • short story by Steve Fuson
• 121 • Dragon Blood • (2021) • short story by Benoit Lafortune
• 122 • Butterfly • (2021) • short story by Georgia Cook
• 124 • Toby's Tattoo • (2021) • short story by Jamie Sands
• 129 • The Collection • (2021) • short story by Elliot Cooper
• 131 • Temporary/Permanent • (2021) • short story by Brooke K. Bell
• 132 • Impending Affair • (2021) • short story by H. Argent
• 134 • The Rose Tattoo • (2021) • short story by Helen M. Merrick
• 136 • I Am Happy to Be Here Today Foster • (2021) • short story by Elsa M. Carruthers
• 138 • Blind Date • (2021) • short story by Rainie Zenith
• 140 • A Flacon of Ink • (2021) • short story by Dean Wells
• 141 • Squid on the Beach • (2021) • short story by Claire Davon
• 145 • Faith and the Thorncutters • (2021) • short story by Die Booth
• 147 • Power • (2021) • short story by Aten
• 149 • Inksticks and Paper Swans • (2021) • short story by Jamie Lackey
• 151 • Belonging • (2021) • short story by Dale Parnell
• 153 • The Summoning • (2021) • short story by Dale Jordan
• 155 • Mending • (2021) • short story by Blaine D. Arden
• 156 • Rougarous Inc. • (2021) • short story by Laura J. Kelly
• 157 • Spider Legs • (2021) • short story by F. Schraeder
• 159 • Panagram • (2021) • short story by Sheryl R. Hayes
• 161 • Openings • (2021) • short story by L. Noone
• 163 • For Posterity's Sake • (2021) • short story by Nathaniel Taff
• 165 • It's What's Inside That Counts • (2021) • short story by Nathan Alling Long
• 167 • A Prisoner and a Captain • (2021) • short story by B. Eyre
• 168 • Cursebreaker • (2021) • short story by Brooke Prado
• 169 • Colours of Union • (2021) • short story by S. Reinholt
• 173 • Pandora's Row • (2021) • short story by Jasie Gale
• 175 • The Flight of the Telorites • (2021) • short story by Lou Sylvre
• 177 • To Have and to Hold and to Hold and to Hold • (2021) • short story by X. Kelly
• 179 • Oddities • (2021) • short story by Naomi Tajedler
• 181 • The Morning After • (2021) • short story by Raine Norman
• 183 • The Present • (2021) • short story by Monique Cuillerier
• 185 • Unfamiliar Waters • (2021) • short story by Bridget Cassidy
• 187 • Free Hugs • (2021) • short story by Paula McGrath
• 189 • Soullink • (2021) • short story by Ava Kelly
• 191 • rough draft #9/grocery list • (2021) • short story by Magaly Garcia
• 193 • Off-Spectrum • (2021) • short story by Kelly Haworth
• 195 • The Tattooist • (2021) • short story by Jessica M. Kormos
• 199 • Alternate Endings • (2021) • short story by Jorane G. Barton
• 200 • The Colors of Fate • (2021) • short story by Geneva Vand
• 202 • The Angel with Demon Blood • (2021) • short story by Lily Luchesi
• 204 • Love's Portrait • (2021) • short story by S. Murphy
• 206 • For Death Doesn't Part • (2021) • short story by Taylor Roth
• 208 • A Dish Served Hot • (2021) • short story by Jacqui Greaves
• 209 • Told • (2021) • short story by Rodello Santos
• 211 • The Pen is Mightier • (2021) • short story by Kaje Harper
• 213 • Shadowbird • (2021) • short story by R. J. Mustafa
• 215 • Heart Ink • (2021) • short story by Amarilys Acosta
• 219 • Babbler • (2021) • short story by Joe Baumann
• 221 • Aedan • (2021) • short story by Herminia Root
• 223 • Stranger Stories • (2021) • short story by Anja Hendrikse Liu
• 225 • Guilty Pleasure Reading • (2021) • short story by Bradley Robert Parks
• 226 • The Muse's Gift • (2021) • short story by Fiona Moore
• 228 • The Final Line • (2021) • short story by M. Burns
• 230 • Future Perfect • (2021) • short story by T. Wyant
• 232 • Right Place, Right Time • (2021) • short story by Ryley Banks
• 234 • All Myths Are True (but some are truer than others) • (2021) • short story by Rory Ni Coileain
• 236 • Risotto Nero • (2021) • short story by L. McCartney
• 238 • Just a Nudge • (2021) • short story by W. Murks
• 240 • The Inker, the Cat and the Parrot • (2021) • short story by Barbara Krasnoff
• 242 • So Let it Be Written, So Let It Be Done • (2021) • short story by S. R. Jones
• 243 • Renaming • (2021) • short story by Ziggy Schutz
• 245 • Proof in the Telling • (2021) • short story by Rina Youngblood