Teeth is a queer SFF anthology about things that bite. It’s about the startling gleam of a fang in the moonlight, the vulnerability of soft flesh, the sensual pleasure of sinking your teeth into something supple and ripe.
Teeth is a queer SFF anthology about things that bite. It’s about the gleam of a fang in the moonlight, the vulnerability of soft flesh, the feeling of sinking your teeth into something supple and ripe. These five queer stories by five queer authors both veteran and debut explore the fear and pleasure of pursuit, of consumption, of surrender, of things with teeth.
The Ribbon by Heather Bates takes inspiration from The Green Ribbon, reimagining it as a sapphic tale about loyalty and secrets.
All The Way by Lauren E. Mitchell leaves you homeless on a beach, vulnerable, and at the tender mercy of one of the creatures of the night.
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever by Aggie Novak takes the Gothic manor to space and asks what secrets might come back to bite anyone who visits.
Beloved by Noah West explores the all-consuming obsession of desire unaccepted and what it would mean to give in.
A Matter of Interest by Alexis Yu visits an underground vampire club where the real power is in surrender.
Pale she was, as in the moonlight, all shades of night and starshine: deep and bruisy were her eyes, and pink the innermost center of her lips, and white as milk her teeth when she smiled. Her hair, she wore in a cloud of ringlets around her head, impossibly thick for how weightless it seemed; it floated in swoops and curls, unlike any the other girls had seen before. She brought her own oils and rinses with her and Mary had heard her saying to the sir that she would teach the girls how to care for her, she did not mind, only that they must mind the velvet ribbon she wore ‘round her neck, for it was very dear to her.
All The Way Lauren E. Mitchell
You suppose that by winter you won’t be as complacent about sleeping rough as you are now. But tucked away underneath one of the lifeguard stations, with the regular crash of the waves on the sand and the rhythmic thrum of drums from further down the beach, the night air still sweetly warm, you’ve managed to doze off. Your backpack is tucked between your knees, and you’re lying belly to belly with your guitar case, one hand on its neck, one hand clutching the blanket draped over you.
It's that hand that senses the brush of cold as the blanket falls free of your sleep-loosened grasp, but not until the touch becomes more insistent and you feel your arm being cautiously turned over that you shake sleep entirely.
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Aggie Novak
Starlake Hall, the last of the Founding Era Estates, sucked Avet in like a black hole. For the months of their journey, its crumbling carcass had spread like a dark stain against the sparkling pink-and-blue of the cosmic dust cloud. A red dot on the radar, drawing them inexorably in.
The whole way, Avet dreamed of hunger and mouths. Of sharp teeth glistening with saliva. Of her home, Strashar Station, pulled from orbit and consumed by the deep oceans of the planet below. Of jaws that stretched and stretched and never stopped eating.
Beloved Noah West
“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been seven days since my last confession.”
“Speak, my child,” the voice comes from beyond the screen, faint, rasping. Unfamiliar, but that is better. Better someone who cannot recognise him by voice alone.
“There is a man,” he begins, then stops.
The rustle of fabric on the other side of the screen. The claustrophobic air of the confessional pressing down on him, making his lungs heavy, the haze of incense smoke and the smell of old paper curling in under the door.
“Say no more, my child,” the voice warns, low, gentle. “A grave sin.”
A Matter of Interest Alexis Yu
You’re so fucking boring. You never want to do anything fun.
City lights flashed in hypnotic strips through the windows as the tram rattled along the tracks, taking the last pack of passengers out of the glittering CBD and into the tree-lined streets of the inner suburbs.
I fingered the cool metal disc in my pocket, running the pad of my thumb over the engraving.
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