Stories and poems not included in Lost in the Archive
Panic
(Alone on the Borderland, Belanger Books)
An Edwardian picnic, with something lurking in the hydrangeas. Is there any way to avoid a centuries-old menace?
Quethiock by Night
(The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread, Neon Hemlock)
Kit is skint, so she spends the summer in Cornwall with her Aunt. A story about a queer youngster flailing about and failing to recognise a queer elder.
Useful and Beautiful Things *free*
(Metaphorosis)
Frankie is helping out with a house clearance, removing a chess set where each piece has mysterious and dangerous qualities.
On the English Approach to the Study of History *free*
(Giganotosaurus)
Something arcane is afoot at Queen’s College Cambridge! Possibly it’s the prestigious conference, with visitors from around the country. Or it could be the 450-year-old monarch, waiting in the dim chapel for someone to listen to her. A novella-length meander into Dark Academia.
The Ruin
(Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology – and new edition)
A romantic tale of love among the ruins! (Why are you hanging out in those ruins, though? Don’t you think that’s a little bit suspicious?) A story about enjoying apocalypse stories.
The Woodshed at the End of the World
(CloisterFox, issue 3)
A sequel to ‘The Ruin’, but can be read alone. More ruins, architectural and emotional, as lovers reunite in a post-crisis West Country.
Come Buy, Come Buy *free*
(Mythaxis Magazine)
A shoplifting teenager, stuck in a heatwave village, finds a chance to escape to somewhere cooler.
Until a Hundred Generations have Passed *free*
(The Future Fire)
Þēos moldstōw is ǣrende / innan mynegunga webbgeweorce.
This sepulchre is a message / Within a web of warnings.
An Old English translation of the Sandia nuclear waste warnings (more here on why)
A Partial Record of the Early Life of Lys *free*
(Electric Spec)
An overcrowded and isolated science station makes use of the weird local chronology. A child grows up in a place where time is unpredictable.
Includes some discussion of CSA.
Bird, Dust, Wine
(Dark Cheer: Cryptids Emerging, Volume Blue)
The army has brought some large carnivores to Salisbury Plain, but will they be reliable weapons?
Melioration
(Queers Destroy Science Fiction)
What if you could delete a word, right out of someone’s vocabulary?
Would that make them less of an arse? Weaponised linguistics.
