In death, advice feels futile, since people gave you advice and you’re dead anyway.

This had so many good one-liners! Listened to the audiobook version of My Body, Herself by Carmen Maria Machado. Available here. ( )

A happy poly vacation turns into a journey into faerie to save one of their own. Complete with frustrated faerie queen and waffle iron. ( )

My Body, Herself by Carmen Maria Machado - a moving, atmospheric story about a woman who dies in a cave and the self that climbs out of the cave again years later.

Not a Miracle but a Marvel by Tim Pratt - a delightful, fun story about a poly quad vacation that's crashed by fairyland; they crash fairyland back. Adorable.

Under One Roof by Sarah Pinker - a ghost story, deliciously creepy, about stagnation, things left behind, and learning new things about people you love.

The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight by E. Lily Yu - a fairytale about a young, inexperienced witch and a manipulative knight; about wounded people and doing right by yourself.

Rooms Formed of Neurons and Sex - a filthy, sexy romance, breakup, and aftermath between a phone sex worker and a brain in a jar.

Ogres of East Africa by Sofia Samatar - a chronicle of monsters, and the commentary in the margins about the relationship between the two Africans collecting it on behalf of the white hunter who's looking for newer prey.

Essays: "This is Our Work" by Mary Anne Mohanraj, on Star Trek providing a goal to strive for; "All True, Especially the Lies" by Una McCormack, on being a B5 fan becoming a DS9 fan; "Blood Matters" by Aidan Moher, on the relationships between parents and children; "Growing Up in Wonderland" by Dominick Parisien, on having hallucinations and the power of narrative

Poems: (Meat Bone Tea) by S. Qiouyi Lu, dreamy and atmospheric; Million-Year Elegies by Ada Hoffmann, a child's dream of dinosaurs; and The Ghost Marriage by Sonja Taaffe, a distillation of the feeling of nostalgia for something that never existed.

And interviews with Carmen Maria Machado & Sarah Pinsker.