J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci fi/fantasy anthology out: Spells & Stardust.
Spells & Stardust is Scott's first anthology - eight sci fi and fantasy shorts that run the gamut from regeneration to redemption.
The Bear at the Bar: A gay fish out of water tale with a pinch of magic.
Tight: What happens when your lover disappears in midair?
Morgan: The year when everything changed.
Re-Life: What if you were reborn in a strange new future?
A New Year: They met every eleven years. And each time, Hank's life changed.
Repetition: What if you wanted to go back in the closet?
Gargoyle: Sometimes you get what you deserve. Sometimes it happens on All Hallows Eve.
Avalon: A few bright moments in the sun, stolen from outside time.
Most of these stories have been previously published in various anthologies and journals. This is the first time they have all been collected in one place.
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Excerpt
From "A New Year"
The nearly-frozen water rushed by in the river below, flowing under the bridge behind him and on toward the ocean far away in a steady flow, silver in the moonlight and heavily laden with winter rain. As soon as he gathered his courage, Hank would let go of his grip on the railing and fall into those icy waters, to disappear forever from the world of men.
It was New Year's Day, 1986, an hour after midnight, and it was the end of things for Hank.
Or it should have been.
It was also the night he first met Dale.
Unique Excerpt – From "Tight"
The wind rushed past his face, cool drops of moisture hitting his cheeks as the ground flew past below—the buried machinery of Gas Works Park, the rippling waters of Lake Union, the crumpled form of Gehry's EMP next to the Space Needle with the Seattle skyline as a backdrop. So close he could almost touch them. His hand was entwined with another's.
He'd always wanted to fly...
Bzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz...
Awakening with a groan, Christopher sat up groggily, rubbing his fingers gently across his aching temples. His head was pounding from too many Redhook ales the night before. Why do I always do this to myself?
Forcing his tired eyes open, he hit the snooze button on his clock app, and groped for the little red and white bottle of Tylenol that rested precariously on the edge of the night-stand beside his bed.
The morning light stung his eyes, and he fumbled with the lid for some time before finally prying it open and spilling the capsules onto his waiting palm. Child-proof caps, he thought without humor, should be called hung-over adult-proof caps.
With less than his usual dexterity, he jotted down what he remembered of his dreams in the notebook he kept by his bedside. The sensation of flight. The other man's piercing golden eyes, so much like Eric's, and the elfin features that had haunted Christopher's nights for weeks.
A gust of wind burst in through the open window, sending Eric's picture flying off the windowsill to the ground with a loud crash that made Christopher jump.
"Damn it." He climbed out of bed to pick up the precious portrait. It was one of the few things he had left of his husband, more than a year after he'd last seen Eric. Some things were harder to let go of than others.
Author Bio
Scott lives with his husband of twenty five years in a Sacramento suburb, in a cute little yellow house with a brick fireplace and two pink flamingoes out front.
He inhabits in the space between the here and now and the what could be. Indoctrinated into science fiction and fantasy by his mom at the tender age of nine, he quickly finished her entire library. But he soon began to wonder where all the queer people were.
After coming out at twenty three, he started writing the kinds of stories he couldn't find at Crown Books. If there weren't many queer characters in his favorite genres, he would will them into existence, subverting them to his own ends. And if he was lucky enough, someone else would want to read them.
His friends say Scott's mind works a little differently than most - he makes connections between ideas that others don't, and somehow does more in a day than most people manage in a week. Although born an introvert, he forced himself to reach outside himself, and learned to connect with others like him.
Scott's stories subvert expectations that transform traditional science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something different and unexpected. He runs both Queer Sci Fi and QueeRomance Ink with his husband Mark.
His romance and genre fiction writing brings a queer energy to his stories, filling them with love, beauty and power. He imagines how the world could be - in the process, he hopes to change the world, just a little.
Scott was recognized as one of the top new gay authors in the 2017 Rainbow Awards, and his debut novel "Skythane" received two awards and an honorable mention.
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