I have a raft of Story Bundle offerings on my Kindle. In the past I’ve had their annual lgbtqia selections. I also pick up their world scifi collections & currently am working through this bookshelf:
Cannibal Chef – Cassandra Khaw
Priome Meridian: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Secret History of Moscow – Ekaterina Sedia
The Apex Book of World SF 3/4/5
The Vanishing Kind – Lavie Tidhar
Under the pendulum Sun – Jeanette Ng
The Thousand Year Black – TOBI Hirotaka
Slipping – Lauren Brukes
Nexhuman – Francesco Verso
Falling in Love With Hominids – Nalo Hopkinson
Escape From Bagdad! – Saad Z. Hossain
After the Falre – Deji Bryce Olukotun
AfroSF v3
I enjoy these looks at the future from writers outside the ciswhite heterosex context. I have read the first two volumes of The Apex Books & loved them.
Also waiting to be read are: Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert; Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant – Melissa Scott – this is the 3rd in this series that I first came across in a Story Bundle of lgbtqia scifi. Star: Yukio Mishima – Mishima is an inspiration to me. I saw this on the shelf at a book store & checked on Amazon & downloaded a copy. Too bad there isn’t away to do that as an in-store download purchase or I would have done it there.
Psychedelic-40 – Louis Charbonneau; Sexperiment – Clyde Allison – I stumbled on these thanks a Tumblr feed of pulp scifi feeds. The covers were enough to make me want to read these plus those titles are fantastic. I can’t wait to read them.
Looming Low Volume I; Dig Two Graves: Anthology Vol. II; Anathema: Issue 8. Looming & Dig feature stories by my niece Betty Rocksteady (she writes nightmares 🙂 ) Gory with a helping of sexuality & insects. Anathema is a Canadian spec fiction magazine that is strongly lgbtqia. I’ve been a subscriber from issue 1. Excellent stories minimal gore.
Recent additions are Valley Of The Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition – Jacqueline Susann. Susann is another of my literary inspirations – this book in particular with its mix of soap opera, wish fulfilment, showbiz & sex. I’ve read it several times & my paperback is showing signs of age. Deep Work – Cal Newport: a self-help book! A friend of mine read it & it pushed him to remove diversions from his life so he can focus on productivity or at least on things that move him forward. The Internet is full of fake-productivity time-wasters like Facebook, twitter, linked in, etc.
Most recent addition is What happens on tour, stays on tour by Kevin Paterson. I ‘met’ Kevin online via WordPress. This is the fourth ebook book of his I’ve downloaded. Yes I did read the others & quite enjoyed them so I’m looking forward to this one.
The Witch
the witch that is my name
cartwheels over the city
clowns around when there is nothing
here to laugh at
when there are only tears to spill
to dampen the grave dust grace
of lost stars and missed chances
you aren’t the only one
needing to be charmed back to wetness
not the only one who had lost his day
in the night of frustrations and distrust
not the only one who thinks
the witch that is my name
can do more that any one name
can possibly do
besides
you don’t believe in fairy tale stuff
there are no happy blending
no shuffled coils
that can ever lead you back
to the safety of the tomb
the witch that is my name
cannot remove the pain
that creeps into your bones
that leaves you feeling
like a ghost without a skin
cannot move you along this path
any farther than you are now
but will not sit around with you either
there are floors to be swept
things to be undone
the witch that is my name
flies around blind alleys
with the same discomfort as any other
lost hankering figment
the blood in my veins hurts for you
takes me where I least expect to be
and leaves me the word
the unutterable word
that cannot help anyone
that cannot bring comfort to anyone
but me
cannot replace your skin
cannot take your place
the witch that is my name
has been divested of all power
except the power you give yourself
every Tuesday 2019
October
15 – Stratford Festival – The Crucible
November
7 – Hot Damn! It’s Queer Slam – Buddies and Bad Times Theatre
December
The Secret Handshake Gallery – 
feature – date TBA
January
23 – Hot Damn! It’s Queer Slam – Buddies and Bad Times Theatre
March
March 5 – Hot Damn! It’s Queer Slam – Buddies and Bad Times Theatre
April
April 3 – Hot Damn! It’s Queer Slam – Season 6 finales Buddies andBbad Times Theatre
June – Capturing Fire 2020 – Washington D.C. 
capfireslam.org
Hey! Or you can give me $$$ to defray blog fees & buy coffee in Washington at 2020’s capfireslam.org – sweet, eh? paypal.me/TOpoet
