#series: marchverse short stories

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Fiction Round Up: July / August / September

Fiction Round Up: July / August / September

You can tell my updates here have become infrequent at best: I’m using the same header title as I did for a fiction collection post spanning the same three-month period last year. I’m also posting this at the end of October…

This is, in part, what’s lead me to rework my online presence. Most of what I’m writing/creating is connected to my aromanticism, so it goes up on Aro Worlds. That’s also the…

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https://www.patreon.com/aroworlds/ 

I didn’t notice the bit about the Patreon until the third time I looked at this post! 

Their Patreon says: 

“Followers can find fiction, fanfiction, poetry, fanart, original art, pride merch, pride crafts and flag edits for identities across the aromantic spectrum. “My projects include the Aro-Spec Artist Profiles, where other aromantic-spectrum creatives in all disciplines talk the intersection of their creativity and their aromantic experiences, and Hallo, Aro, a flash fiction series about allosexual aromanticism (aromantics who experience sexual attraction). I also write short stories and novelettes about trans, queer, mentally-ill, disabled and autistic characters on the aromantic spectrum. The Marchverse and Eagle Court books all feature aromantic protagonists, and most of my stories are available for free!”

There’s only one tier, and it’s $1 a month! But, of course, you’re allowed to give more.  Boost them, their stuff looks great! 

[image description: six different cartoon-style bunting graphics, featuring six pride flags flags hanging from a brown rope. The flags are rectangular, finishing in a chevron shape, and have rows of brown stitching across the top of the flag and along the bottom of the chevron. First image in each set shows the flags with the topmost stripes facing the left; second image shows the three right-hand flags flipped, so all topmost edges face away from the centre of the bunting. First set of flags shows the gold allo-aro flag, second set shows the orange/blue aro-ace flag, third set shows the green aromantic flag.]

Aro Bunting, Part One

Does anyone want to decorate their website for an aromantic-themed party?

Free to use with credit to one of my accounts. Original files are available to download from my Aro Worlds Patreon or my Aro Arrows WordPress site.

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Update: Love Spells, Rainbows and Rosie

Update: Love Spells, Rainbows and Rosie

Lovers’ Day is good trading for a witch who deals in enchantments, ribbons and dyed flowers. For Mara Hill, it’s long been a holiday of tedious assumptions and painful conversations—once best handled by casting petty curses on annoying customers. This year, when a girl asks about love spells, it may be time to instead channel a little Aunt Rosie.

Contains: A sapphic, allosexual, lithromantic…

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Fiction: Love Spells, Rainbows and Rosie

Fiction: Love Spells, Rainbows and Rosie

Summary: Lovers’ Day is good trading for a witch who deals in enchantments, ribbons and dyed flowers. For Mara Hill, it’s long been a holiday of tedious assumptions and painful conversations–once best handled by casting petty curses on annoying customers. This year, when a girl asks about love spells, it may be time to instead channel a little Aunt Rosie.

Theme:A sapphic, allosexual, lithromantic…

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Fiction: The Sorcerous Compendium of Postmortem Query

Fiction: The Sorcerous Compendium of Postmortem Query

Summary: On the night of the Thinning, necromancer Mara Hill goes to the village graveyard to ask a question she can’t risk sharing with the living. The meddling dead, however, speak more than Mara expects about their once-living experiences of love and attraction.

Theme:The story features an a sapphic allosexual akoi/lithromantic woman, with a non-amorous aro-ace man and a bisexual aromantic…

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Linkspam Friday: November 30

Linkspam Friday: November 30

Does anyone remember that I do this? I can’t blame you if you don’t. It’s been a while.

After a flurry of posting fiction, I’ve been updating book pages. I’ve now got cover art up for The Sorcerous Compendium of Postmortem Query. (Self, use a less unwieldy title next time.) I’m currently trying to focus on finishing the third Mara and Esher story because I can’t post the second Crewchapter:…

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With Kit gone to the Greensward, Amelia March is content with her faked witchery, the ailments of her villagers and romance confined to a novel. She isn’t pleased, therefore, to find her cousin darkening her doorway—her cousin with two feet, a belly, a sword of some distinction, a story, a young girl named Osprey, a beaming smile and an undying hatred for the elves. Still, Amelia thinks she can survive the chaos, at least until Kit announces a grand plan to start a school for divergent magicians…

Genre: fantasy, short story, queer, trans, autism, aromanticism, asexuality, free

Length: approximately 7 500 words / 28 pages

Series: [Marchverse Short Stories] / [The Unnatural Philosophy of Kit March]

Previous Book: [Old Fashioned]

Formats/Vendor: [PDF] | [EPUB] | [Smashwords]

This is dedicated to @transcoranic who has been an absolutely amazing trans-and-autistic reader in understanding what I'm doing and why. I am still not over (and will never be over) the fact that he reads my stuff.

Please note that this story operates in the context of a marginalised character who has experienced discrimination at the hands of the elves (who are positioned here as a multiply-privileged community, one violently unwilling to share the benefits of their privilege save when it benefits them further). There’s a theme of autistic-targeted ableism and eugenics running throughout Kit’s story in addition to the isolation Amelia feels in being disconnected from allistic (and alloromantic) narratives.

If you want a fantasy story with three autistic characters who stim all the way through and just happen to be trans, with two of them also being a-spec, here’s a story about that, the difficulty of living as autistic in an allistic world and the beginning of a school designed to change it.

Image description under read more cut:

[image description: cover image for K. A. Cook's Conception: An Amelia March Story. Cover has a vector image cartoony style picture of a lounge room with rough-made furniture--mantel, rocking chair, stool, table--in front of a stone fireplace. Magical and household items like bone amulets, glowing mushrooms, spell bottles and a glowing capsicum sit on the mantel, books and flowers sit on the table and a loaf of bread sits on the stool. A round brown rug covers the stone floor, and laundry hangs from the roof. The title and author credit are written in a red and white handrawn type.]