Shorts

Description: Illustration of latte art with a palm tree for welcoming summer vacation getaway in an light blue mug.

Description: Illustration of latte art with a sand dollar for welcoming summer in an dark blue mug.

Description: Illustration of latte art with a bumblebee for welcoming summer. Foam bee in an peachy-orange mug.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Wuxia, Chinese historical fantasy focusing on martial artists navigating ancient China.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Weird fiction blending horror, science fiction, and fantasy, subverting traditional genre tropes and featuring unexplainable, non-traditional monsters, alien environments, and a creeping sense of existential dread.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Thriller fiction, fast-paced genre designed to elicit intense emotions like suspense, anxiety, and excitement. It centers on high stakes and a race against time, where a protagonist faces danger while trying to defeat a villain or prevent a catastrophe.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Sword and Sorcery Fiction, fast-paced fantasy featuring tough, sword-wielding heroes who engage in violent, action-packed adventures.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Superhero fiction, speculative fiction that centers on costumed crime-fighters who use superhuman abilities, advanced technology, or exceptional skills to protect the innocent.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Solarpunk fiction, speculative fiction plus activistism that imagines a hopeful, sustainable future.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Slipstream fiction, speculative fiction that straddles the line between traditional literary fiction, science fiction, and fantasy.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Romantasy, blending magical or supernatural world-building with an intense, central romantic relationship.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Prehistoric Fantasy, fantasy that combines the primal, untamed settings of the Stone Age or ancient prehistory with magical or supernatural elements. Instead of medieval kingdoms, stories feature tribal survival, shamanism, megafauna, and mythical beasts.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Portal Fantasy or Gateway Fantasy, a fantasy in which characters leave a mundane world—often our real world—and enter a completely separate, magical realm through a doorway, object, or dimensional rift.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Nordic Crime Fiction or Nordic Noir, a subgenre set in Scandinavian countries, characterized by bleak settings, methodical pacing, and morally complex detectives.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: New Weird Fiction, a subgenre that merging science fiction, fantasy, and horror that came out of the late 1990s and early 2000s, breaking away from traditional genre tropes by abandoning romanticized worlds in favor of surreal, often urban, and unsettling settings that interrogate modern, real-world realities.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Mythpunk, a speculative fiction that takes traditional myths, folklore, and fairy tales and gives them a rebellious, postmodern twist.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Magical Cats, fiction genre encompassing cozy mysteries, fantasy, and magical realism where felines possess supernatural abilities, act as familiars, or exist in mystical worlds.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Jiangshi fiction, or goeng-si fiction in Cantonese--a literary and cinematic genre of horror based on the jiangshi of Chinese folklore, a reanimated corpse.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Grimdark, speculative fiction characterized by bleak settings, moral ambiguity, and unrelenting cynicism.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Giant Monster Fiction or kaiju--towering creatures with themes of nature’s wrath, atomic dread, and the limits of human technology.

Description: Hand drawn bald eagle on a firecracker celebrating 250 years of America making bad decisions.

Description: Hand drawn bald eagle on a firecracker celebrating 250 years of America, freedom, and fireworks.

Description: Gaslamp Fantasy, historical fantasy set in the 19th or early 20th century and blending the aesthetics of the Regency, Victorian, or Edwardian eras with magic and the supernatural.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Flintlock Fantasy, fantasy that blends traditional magic systems with the early modern military technology of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Fantasy of manners or "Mannerpunk" -- fantasy that swaps epic battlefields for drawing rooms, focusing on social interactions, class hierarchies, and etiquette rather than traditional sword and sorcery.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Epistolary, literature told through correspondence, such as letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, and modern formats like emails or text messages.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Dieselpunk, a retro-futuristic subgenre of science fiction that combines the aesthetics of early-to-mid 20th-century technology (roughly 1910s to 1950s) with futuristic or speculative elements.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Cozy Fantasy that trades high-stakes battles and apocalyptic threats for heartwarming, low-stress narratives.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Climate Fiction -- a literary genre that explores the causes, consequences, and human realities of anthropogenic climate change.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Bizarro fiction -- contemporary literary genre that blends absurdism, satire, and the grotesque with pop-surrealism to create intentionally weird, subversive, and highly entertaining stories.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Biopunk -- science fiction featuring biotechnology and genetic engineering.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Bildungsroman -- a literary genre focusing on the psychological and moral growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Atompunk -- retro-futuristic science fiction subgenre based on the pre-digital era of 1945–1969.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Arcanepunk -- a speculative fiction genre that merges advanced science or industrial-era technology with magic.

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Alien Fantasy -- traditional fantasy tropes with extraterrestrial settings, alien biology, and planetary romance!

Description: Tell people what you write and read: Steampunk with gears, valves, and airships.