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Pink Narcissus is a small press publisher founded in 2010 that specializes in speculative fiction with an LGBTQ+ and feminist slant.
Heroic quests. Epic battles. Worlds populated with monsters, errant knights, faerie folk, wizards and dragons. These are all fine things in our opinion, and we seek out the original in the traditional. However, even we sometimes tire of hanging around in the cold, damp castle until the king sends us off on a another quest for another magic sword. Therefore dark fantasy, urban fantasy, literary fantasy, and crossovers with science fiction and horror are also welcome. Other genres we like served straight up include magic realism, the new weird, and soft sociological science fiction. We are LGBTQ+ friendly and welcome themes of alternative sexuality. People of color, people with disabilities, and women are also highly encouraged to submit their work to us. |
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Coming in 2020
The Silence of the Wilting Skin by Tlotlo Tsamaase
From an exciting new voice in speculative fiction, Tlotlo Tsamaase weaves together a story of identity and family, of love and loss, and the dead.
In an African city, a nameless young woman living in the wards slowly begins to lose her identity: her skin color is peeling off, people are becoming invisible, and the city plans to destroy the train where they bury their dead.
In the wards the dreamskin people walk the land to predict a citizen’s death. After the narrator is given a warning by her grandmother’s dreamskin, things begin to fall apart. Struggling to hold onto a fluctuating reality, she prescribes herself insomnia in a desperate attempt to save her family.
Available May 2020.
Cover design by Duncan Eagleson.
From an exciting new voice in speculative fiction, Tlotlo Tsamaase weaves together a story of identity and family, of love and loss, and the dead.
In an African city, a nameless young woman living in the wards slowly begins to lose her identity: her skin color is peeling off, people are becoming invisible, and the city plans to destroy the train where they bury their dead.
In the wards the dreamskin people walk the land to predict a citizen’s death. After the narrator is given a warning by her grandmother’s dreamskin, things begin to fall apart. Struggling to hold onto a fluctuating reality, she prescribes herself insomnia in a desperate attempt to save her family.
Available May 2020.
Cover design by Duncan Eagleson.
Available in 2019
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Suspended Heart: Stories by Heather Fowler
In an explosion of love’s metaphors, Fowler’s magic realism collection, SUSPENDED HEART, takes on American fabulism with a cast of unexpected heroines in the narratives of life and loss—women whose hearts fall out at public malls, women whose bodies bloom with changing seasons, women who sprout blades or have multiple eyes, sleep as snakes, or birth saints like lapis lazuli babies. There’s a fearlessness to this prose, a melody of life and magic and loss. This Collector’s Edition contains three previously uncollected stories.
Cover art by Siolo Thompson.
In an explosion of love’s metaphors, Fowler’s magic realism collection, SUSPENDED HEART, takes on American fabulism with a cast of unexpected heroines in the narratives of life and loss—women whose hearts fall out at public malls, women whose bodies bloom with changing seasons, women who sprout blades or have multiple eyes, sleep as snakes, or birth saints like lapis lazuli babies. There’s a fearlessness to this prose, a melody of life and magic and loss. This Collector’s Edition contains three previously uncollected stories.
Cover art by Siolo Thompson.
Stringbean and the Grace of Dog by Geneva Zane
Little Stringbean, coming of age in a strange yet strangely familiar small town. Grown from a seed and raised as a miracle by a warm but distant religious cult leader and his reclusive and deeply depressed widowed companion, Stringbean struggles with the challenges created by her outsider upbringing. In a series of delicately compelling vignettes Stringbean and the Grace of Dog vividly brings into focus the heartbreaking vulnerability of a childhood played out on the dusty stage of a ruptured world.
Cover art by Siolo Thompson
Little Stringbean, coming of age in a strange yet strangely familiar small town. Grown from a seed and raised as a miracle by a warm but distant religious cult leader and his reclusive and deeply depressed widowed companion, Stringbean struggles with the challenges created by her outsider upbringing. In a series of delicately compelling vignettes Stringbean and the Grace of Dog vividly brings into focus the heartbreaking vulnerability of a childhood played out on the dusty stage of a ruptured world.
Cover art by Siolo Thompson
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Now available: The Knife's Daughter by Andrew Coletti
Your mother needed you to be a prince. When your father was slain and your mother fled into exile, the prophecy was her only comfort. The child in her belly would be a prince, it said, who would wield his father’s sword, avenge his death and take back his throne. But when the time came, your mother didn’t have a boy. She had you. *** “The Knife’s Daughter is a lyrical, moving tale of identity and duty. The story combines the magic and wonder of the quest-based fairy tales of old with a complex exploration of gender roles and identity... It takes the traditional fairy tale and turns it completely on its head. Heartbreaking, magical, and completing engrossing, this story will break your heart and then put it back together stronger than it was before.” - Terri Bruce, author of the Afterlife series Cover design by Dante Saunders. |
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Now available: The Ramshead Algorithm and Other Stories by KJ Kabza
Ramshead Jones has a billionaire father, a dysfunctional family, and a shocking secret nestled in the hedge maze in his backyard: Earth's only portal to hundreds of other realities. When Ramshead's unwitting father decides to rip the hedge maze out, Ramshead is forced to use dangerous magic to move the portal before it's destroyed, too—unless the deadly maze of other family secrets that come to light destroys him first. In The Ramshead Algorithm and Other Stories, sand cats speak, ghost bikes roll, corpses disappear, and hedge mazes are more bewildering than you've ever imagined. These 11 fantasy and science fiction stories from KJ Kabza have been dubbed "Sublime" (Tangent), "Rich" (SFRevu), and "Ethereal" (Quick Sip Reviews) and will take you deep into other astonishing realities that not even Ramshead has discovered. Introduction by Gordon Van Gelder. Cover design and interior illustrations by Dante Saunders. |
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Our Brave Boy World: A Transman Anthology is now available in trade paperback and for the Kindle!
We give a special thanks to artist Dante Saunders for his work on this project. More of Dante's work can be found on various social media, including deviantArt and tumblr. Edited by Michael Takeda, Brave Boy World includes stories by Bo Balder, K.C. Ball, Deven Balsam, Jaap Boekestein, Keyan Bowes, Eric Del Carlo, Nicole Jinks-Fredrick, Ryan Kelly, Ace Lo, Brit Mandelo, Everett Maroon, M. Raoulee, Jes Rausch, Dave Riser, Maverick Smith, Noa Josef Sperber, J. Daniel Stone, Rafael S.W., and Edd Vick. |
View the trailer for Heather Fowler's Beautiful Ape Girl Baby (June 2016).