#Craig Laurance Gidney

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The Nectar of Nightmares by Craig Laurance Gidney

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The stories in The Nectar of Nightmares weave and remix myths, legends, and identities. Ranging from retold folktales to diverse settings like the Harlem Renaissance and the contemporary drag ball scene to phantasmagoric secondary worlds, this is a horror collection for those who have descended so far into the deep, there's nothing left to fear.

There is.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this short story collection yet, but I did hear "Desiccant", one of the short stories in it, on the Nightlight podcast and it is really good, so I will be checking out the full collection.

#the nectar of nightmares #craig laurance gidney #polls #trans lit #trans literature #trans books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #lgbt books #short stories #anthology #horror #also check out nightlight!!! if you like horror it is so so so good! #trans woman #to read

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Leah Looks At - Looming Low: Vol. II

Leah Looks At – Looming Low: Vol. II

Looming Low: Vol. IIEdited by: Justin Steele and Max CowanPublisher: Dim Shores Publication Year: October, 2022ISBN: 9798985828214 Format: Hardcover and First Paperback editions limited to 150 hand-numbered copies. At the time of this post, I have seen that number now in question for First Paperback. An e-book version is promised to arrive, but timing remains uncertain.The award-winning anthology…

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#A. C. Wise #Alvaro Zinos-Amaro #anya martin #Brian Evenson #Brooke Warra #Clint Smith #Cody Goodfellow #Craig Laurance Gidney #David Peak #Dim Shores #Erica Ruppert #Gemma Files #Gwendolyn Kiste #Jeffrey Thomas #Justin Steele #Kaaron Warren #kurt Fawver #Looming Low Vol II #matthew m bartlett #max cowan #Michael Griffin #Michael Kelly #Nadia Bulkin #Richard Gavin #S. P. Miskowski #Simon Strantzas #Weird Fiction

[bengiyo]

Love for Love's Sake Ep 8 (Finale) Stray Thoughts

Last time, the game world began falling apart around Myungha as he refused to choose between his grandmother or Yeowoon dying. With only 15 days left, Myungha began to pull back from Yeowoon, even as he tried to bulk up his relationships with his friends. Myungha received an item to change any part of the story, but could not change himself to admit to Yeowoon directly that he loved him. Despite Yeowoon asking all the right questions directly, Myungha couldn’t say what needed to be said, and chose to break up. We left with Myungha falling into the abyss as the world unwound before him.

Did Myungha erase himself from Yeowoon’s memory? I’m glad his friendships are intact, but it seems like he’s experiencing echoes of Myungha.

Episode 8: Answers

Wait, why does the brand lady remember Tae Myungha?

Oh, this is upsetting. Only the brand lady and Yeowoon remember Myungha. Even his grandmother doesn’t remember.

He wrote “Please make Cha Yeowoon happy” and then he vanished. I get his panic now.

Wait, is Cha Yeowoon a PC now?

Wait, was the brand owner Myungha’s ex in the main world?

Oh no…. Tae Myungha went to see his mom before and she had started a new family and refused to see him.

I approve of the letterboxing to let us know we’re seeing the history from the physical world.

This is putting me in my Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories by Craig Laurance Gidney feelings.

Wow. I have a lot of thoughts about this writer creating a story because he loved his friend he missed so much that he wanted to give him a second life in a game where you help him see that he is loved and that he can choose to live. “Write me a poem to make me happy.”

ARE THEY IN DIFFERENT REALITIES? WHAT THE HELL??

He’s going to find his favorite person!!! 😭

Oh, romance, never stop hitting me with lens flares to show that the love is bursting.

Yes, let’s continue those kissing lessons.

Whoa, he’s wearing pink now.

Okay, seeing them make out by the sea and then play in it with their friends after that reveal about Myungha just sent me over the edge.

Final Verdict: 9, Highly Recommended. This final episode went to some really dark places, but this is the kind of queer media that I secretly love the most. I’ve written about how grief is a big part of my experience before, and how much Eternal Yesterday helped me cope with feelings that had been in me for 15 years. I think there’s something beautiful in the melancholy of the writer who is grieving their friend in their work. The thing about the fact that everyone dies, is that those who loved us will remember us and they will miss us. A version of us continues to live on in them. When we lose someone tragically, there is a need to process those feelings, and I appreciate the desire of a writer to immortalize their friend in a story where they recognize and receive the love they wished for in life.

I love that there’s a component of death of the author here, where Myungha wants to know who he is and why he wrote things like this, because I wonder if the writer infused some of the writings Myungha gave in life since we recognized Myungha’s handwriting in the missions. He’s trying to give Myungha what he wrote that he wanted and what he wrote about love. I love that we don’t exactly what the creator’s relationship is with Myungha, but the gay in me calls to the gay in him and says that he loved his junior in Myungha the way Myungha maybe connected to in Yeowoon. I like to think that he wrote Cha Yeowoon based on how he saw Myungha, and a part of him wanted to see Myungha happy. Perhaps he felt he couldn’t give that to Myungha in life for various reasons.

I loved the game mechanics so much. I loved the side quests. I loved it because it didn’t work all the time. I know I link Shane Koyczan a lot when I’m being especially emo around here, but it’s like his poem Stop Signs where he’s desperate to connect with his crush and he’s trying everything he can think of to reach them. What it does force to recognize is what’s important. All the running around and trying to get all of these things is about taking care of the person he likes. Earning the money forced him to work at something without just receiving it from someone else. Getting Yeowoon friends made both of their lives better, and they found the other gays! I loved the debuff mechanic because it makes you pay attention to the world around them and approach situations with caution.

This show was beautiful. I haven’t seen an It Gets Better project that hit the right way for me in so long. I like that this show kinda snuck up on us with the darkness. There have been so many high profile celebrity deaths in Korea in the last few years, and there’s gotta be so many more of regular people that we don’t even know. I really love that this story is about loving lonely boys and asks the audience not to give up. I love the notion that loving someone else is a pathway to learning to love yourself. You can love for the sake of love itself. This show surprised the hell out of me, but this is going to be one of the shows I think sticks with me from this year.

#Ben watches #love for love's sake #love supremacy zone #korean bl #bl series

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🖤 Black History Month ❤️

💛 Queer Books by Black Authors 💚

[ List Under the Cut ]

🖤 Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender ❤️ Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta 💛 Warrior of the Wind by Suyi Davies Okungbowa 💚 I'm a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De La Cruz 🖤 Real Life by Brandon Taylor ❤️ Ruthless Pamela Jean by Carol Denise Mitchell 💛 The Unbroken by C.L. Clark 💚 Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova 🖤 Skin Deep Magic by Craig Laurance Gidney ❤️ The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi 💛 That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole 💚Work for It by Talia Hibbert

🖤 All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson ❤️ The Deep by Rivers Solomon 💛 How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters 💚 Running With Lions by Julian Winters 🖤 Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters ❤️ This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender 💛 The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum 💚 This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow 🖤 Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa ❤️ Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbalia 💛 Legendborn by Tracy Deonn 💚 The Wicker King by K. Ancrum

🖤 Pet by Akwaeke Emezi ❤️ You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson 💛 Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole 💚 Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron 🖤 Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann ❤️ A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney 💛 Power & Magic by Joamette Gil 💚 The Black Veins by Ashia Monet 🖤 Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon ❤️ The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow 💛 Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James 💚 Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett

🖤 The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta ❤️ Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee 💛 A Phoenix First Must Burn (edited) by Patrice Caldwell 💚 Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson 🖤 Things We Couldn't Say by Jay Coles ❤️ Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad 💛 Darling by K. Ancrum 💚 The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode 🖤 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé ❤️ Off the Record by Camryn Garrett 💛 Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers 💚 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

🖤 How to Dispatch a Human by Stephanie Andrea Allen ❤️ Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans 💛 The Essential June Jordan (edited) by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller 💚 A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark 🖤 A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney ❤️ Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo 💛 Dread Nation by Justina Ireland 💚 Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome 🖤 Masquerade by Anne Shade ❤️ One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite 💛 Soulstar by C.L. Polk 💚 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

🖤 Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender ❤️ Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby 💛 Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair 💚 The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi 🖤 If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann ❤️ Sweethand by N.G. Peltier 💛 This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron 💚 Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon 🖤 Friday I’m in Love by Camryn Garrett ❤️ Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez 💛 Memorial by Bryan Washington 💚 Patsy by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

🖤 Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon ❤️ How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole 💛 Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackosn 💚 Mouths of Rain (edited) by Briona Simone Jones 🖤 Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia ❤️ Love's Divine by Ava Freeman 💛 The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr 💚 Odd One Out by Nic Stone 🖤 Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden ❤️ Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas 💛 The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons 💚 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

🖤 Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert ❤️ My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson 💛 Pleasure and Spice by Fiona Zedde 💚 No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull 🖤 The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus ❤️ Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor 💛 The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin 💚 Peaces by Helen Oyeyem 🖤 The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk ❤️ Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh 💛 Bingo Love by Tee Franklin, Jenn St-Onge, Joy San 💚 The Heart Does Not Bend by Makeda Silvera

🖤 King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender ❤️ By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery 💛 Busy Ain't the Half of It by Frederick Smith & Chaz Lamar Cruz 💚 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 🖤 Sin Against the Race by Gar McVey-Russell ❤️ Trumpet by Jackie Kay 💛 Remembrance by Rita Woods 💚 Daughters of Nri by Reni K. Amayo 🖤 You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour ❤️ The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters 💛 Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi 💚 Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyem

#black history month #queer romance #queer books #queer community #queer #book list #book blog #booklr #bookstagram #book lovers #book reader #book reading #books to read #reading #batty about books #battyaboutbooks

[queirdfiction]

also just to throw this into the void, this is a big long list of books i’ve read in the past couple years that i’d categorize as queird, just so we can all orient ourselves

The Route of Ice and Salt by Jose Luis Zarate

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

Your Mind is a Terrible Thing by Hailey Piper

The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper

Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata

Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite

Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite

The Devourers by Indra Das

Red X by David Demchuk

Leech by Hiron Ennes

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney

The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Jawbone by Monica Ojeda

Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei

The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw

Finna by Nino Cipri

Defekt by Nino Cipri

Subcutanean by Aaron A. Reed

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

#book list

[burlveneer]

I read some books in 2022:

Nick Mamatas - The Second Shooter Daisy Johnson - Fen J.B. Priestley - The Other Place, and Other Stories of the Same Sort Charles L. Grant - Tales from the Nightside David T. Neal - The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror L.C. von Hessen - Spiritus Ex Machina Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites Mark Valentine - The Fig Garden and Other Stories Ellen Datlow - When Things Get Dark Craig Laurance Gidney - A Spectral Hue A.G. Slatter - The Path of Thorns Hailey Piper - Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy Tanith Lee - Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction Seon Manley - The Ghost In The Far Garden, And Other Stories Victor LaValle - The Ballad of Black Tom Cassandra Khaw - Hammers on Bone Kameron Hurley - Meet Me in the Future: Stories Mark Russell - The Flintstones, Vol. 1 Robert Westall - Ghost Abbey Hailey Piper - No Gods for Drowning David F. Walker - The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History Paul Tobin - The Witcher Omnibus Octavia E. Butler - Kindred Andrew Caldecott - Not Exactly Ghosts (incl. Fires Burn Blue) Junji Ito - Uzumaki R. Ostermeier - A Trick of the Shadow

#books

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Books & Burlesque Promotional Photos

Books & Burlesque Promotional Photos

On December 2, I will be reading at the Books & Burlesque event in New York City at Caveat Club From the website: The December edition of “Books and Burlesque” is hosted by Fortune Cookie and features award-winning authors reading excerpts from their new books: Aimee Lutkin’s nonfiction memoir “The Lonely Hunter: How Our Search for Love Is Broken”; Craig Laurance Gidney’s collection of short…

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#event #reading

[yourdailyqueer]

Craig Laurance Gidney

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 11 November 1967

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Writer

#Craig Laurance Gidney #qpoc #lgbt poc #black excellence #lgbtq #male #gay #1967 #black #african american #writer

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

TPIJ Book Recommendation: “Sea Swallow Me and Other Stories” by Craig Laurance Gidney*

Representation: Gay

Here are found the struggles of a medieval Japanese monk, seduced by a mischievous fairy, and a young slave who finds mystery deep within the briar patch of an antebellum plantation. 

Gidney offers readers a gay teen obsessed with his patron saint, Lena Horne, and, in the title story, an ailing tourist seeking escape at a distant shore but never reckons on encountering an African sea god.

*Author of Color

#mine #tpij #take pride in june #take pride in july #lgbt books #book recommendations #sea swallow me and other stories #craig laurance gidney

[rhysand-vs-fenrys]

TPIJ Book Recommendation: “Sea Swallow Me and Other Stories” by Craig Laurance Gidney*

Representation: Gay

Here are found the struggles of a medieval Japanese monk, seduced by a mischievous fairy, and a young slave who finds mystery deep within the briar patch of an antebellum plantation.

Gidney offers readers a gay teen obsessed with his patron saint, Lena Horne, and, in the title story, an ailing tourist seeking escape at a distant shore but never reckons on encountering an African sea god.

*Author of Color

#mine #tpij #take pride in june #take pride in july #lgbt books #book recommendations #sea swallow me and other stories #craig laurance gidney

[nprbooks]

Craig Laurance Gidney’s debut adult novel is set in a marshy Maryland town where generations of townspeople, artists and drifters are unified by visions of a mysterious, shimmering pink-purple color. Check out our critic Jason Heller’s review here.

-- Petra

#npr books #book reviews #fiction #craig laurance gidney #a spectral hue

[sumikosaulson]

45 Black Men in Horror Part 2

45 Black Men in Horror Part 2

This is the second in a series of three blog posts on Black Men in Horror. Each of the posts highlights 15 different Black Men in the genre of Horror. For the first blog post, look here: 45 Black Men in Horror Part 1 – and stay tuned for 45 Black Men in Horror Part 3! Mame Bougouma Diene Mame Bougouma Diene is a columnist Strange Horizon, an author of horror and other speculative fiction who…

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#Brandon Massey #C. Michael Forsythe #Craig L Gidney #Craig Laurance Gidney #Errick Nunnally #J Malcolm Stewart #James Goodridge #Lamar Giles #LR Giles #Mame Bougouma Diene #Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki #Quinton Veal #Suyi Davies Okungbowa #Sylvester Barzey #Tendai Huchu #Wrath James White

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A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney https://amzn.to/2N43zHo

#A Spectral Hue #Craig Laurance Gidney #books #book review #novel

[wordhordepress]

For generations, the marsh-surrounded town of Shimmer, Maryland has played host to a loose movement of African-American artists, all working in different media, but all utilizing the same haunting color. Landscape paintings, trompe l’oeil quilts, decorated dolls, mixed-media assemblages, and more, all featuring the same peculiar hue, a shifting pigment somewhere between purple and pink, the color of the saltmarsh orchid, a rare and indigenous flower.

Graduate student Xavier Wentworth has been drawn to Shimmer, hoping to study the work of artists like quilter Hazel Whitby and landscape painter Shadrach Grayson in detail, having experienced something akin to an epiphany when viewing a Hazel Whitby tapestry as a child. Xavier will find that others, too, have been drawn to Shimmer, called by something more than art, something in the marsh itself, a mysterious, spectral hue.

From Lambda Literary Award-nominated author Craig Laurance Gidney (Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories, Skin Deep Magic) comes A Spectral Hue, a novel of art, obsession, and the ghosts that haunt us all.

Cover by Matthew Revert

Pub Date: June 18, 2019

Format: Trade Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-939905-50-5

Format: eBook ISBN-13: 978-1-939905-51-2

Order here.

#books #horror #ghosts #Craig Laurance Gidney #A Spectral Hue

[sfreader]

Skin Deep Magic, by Craig Laurance Gidney

Skin Deep Magic, by Craig Laurance Gidney

Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Rebel Satori Press Published: 2014 Reviewer Rating:  Reviewer: Jarla Tangh Have you read this book? [ratings] I adore short stories, especially fantastical ones. My acquaintance with Craig Laurence Gidney’s work actually begins with the YA novel, Bereft, but that’s another book to mention in its own review. I knew I needed to read Skin Deep Magic when I saw the cover.…

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#4 stars #Craig Laurance Gidney #Jarla Tangh #Published: 2014 #Rebel Satori Press

[ginnyweaslays]

65 LGBT Books by Black Authors

In honor of Pride Month obviously, here’s my next list! Please continue to add authors and books to this list! 

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Another Country by James Baldwin

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin

Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris

Just as I am (Invisible Life #2) by E. Lynn Harris

I Say a Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris

Hood Witch by Faylita Hicks

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett

By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery

A Dream so Dark by LL McKinney

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix

Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert

Skin Deep Magic by Craig Laurance Gidney

The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie

Juniper Leaves by Jaz Joyner

Queer Africa - Selected Stories

The Yellow Brownstone by Lisa K. Stephenson

Freedom in This Village by E. Lynn Harris

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction by Devon W. Carbado

In Case You Forgot by Frederick Smith and Chaz Lamar

Mogul by Terrance Dean

Potomac University Series by Rashid Darden

The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces by Michelle Sewell

Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell

Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell**

If We Have to Take Tomorrow by Frank Leon, White Roberts, and Marvin K.

Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men edited by Essex Hemphill

In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology by Joseph Beam

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Here for It by R. Eric Thomas

Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson

Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney

A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan

Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin

The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir by Staceyann Chin

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien

Burnt Men by Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun**

She Called Me Woman edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Rafeeat Aliyu

B-Side and Other Misheard Lyrics by L.M. Bennett

For Sizakele by Yvonne “Fly” Onakeme Etaghene

Black Power Barbie Volume 1: Love Lives of Heroes by Shay Youngblood

Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley

No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff

Something Better than Home by Leona Beasley

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Yabo by Alexis De Veaux

Fragments that Remain by Steven Corbin

Vanishing Rooms by Melvin Dixon

Blackbird by Larry Duplechan

B-Boy Blues Series by James Earl Hardy

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

**I could not find links to buy both of these books, so if anyone is able to please add them to the post!

#books #booklr #pride #lgbt #black authors #text #nonhp #another list for you guys! #20k