Author Description

Anxiety Press, Outcast Press, and Roi Fainéant Press have teamed up to curate an anthology with proceeds going towards The Trevor Project. For 20+ years, The Trevor Project has worked tirelessly on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth, who are more than four times as likely to attempt suicide than their peers (Johns et al., 2019, 2020). This collection of 34 stories is as diverse as the community it supports. Comprised of personal essays, supernatural fiction, fairy tales, romance, noir, and dirty realism to name a few, Mirrors Reflecting Shadows shows MCs searching for acceptance in worlds sometimes fantastical but always relatable in its alienation, murky morals, grime and splendor. Characters include ghosts and gods, contract killers and CPS investigators, card counters and coke dealers, palace gaurds and hen wranglers, suicidal sons and conflicted parents, priests and thieves, wizards and roadies--and that's just a flash of what resides in this pivitol looking glass. ---- 1. The Brief Reflection of a 46-Year-Old Queer, Thus Far by Jarrod Campbell 2. The Reaper by Sadee Bee 3. Lady in Waiting by Friedrich Sarah E. Thompson 4. Things That Might Happen On The Way There by D.W. White 5. A Dream Beyond Sorrow by Sebastian Vice 6. Champagne Moment Blown to Shit by Nathan Pettigrew 7. Unfound by Steve Passey 8. And I Shall Send Down My Vengeance Upon Thee by Jay Parr 9. The Hen Butts Out Her Cig and Says, "All Over Now" by Karen Walker 10. The Music Inside by BF Jones 11. Ate by Max Turner 12. It All Ends With A Bang by Astra Crompton 13. Ugly Missy by Andrew Rucker Jones 14. The Attic by C.N. Martin 15. Drawing Out Leviathan by Daniel David Froid 16. Like Baked Alaska by Francesca Leader 17. Freya Goes Viral by Bev Vincent 18. The Barking in Room Seventeen by Barlow Adams 19. Out Of Spark by Justin Lee 20. Lizards and Other Varmints by Shari Held 21. The Something-Whimsical of Firstname Lastname