Jacquelynn Lyon

Visit worlds with mermaids trapped in zoos, floating continents that block out the sun, curses that sprout flowers from your skin, astronauts on dying spaceships, and forests haunted by hungry bog witches. Five short stories that revolve around the love between women and the fantastical world they inhabit. Sagas of a mermaid fascinated by the enclosure next to hers. A genius young woman trying to reach a stranger in the sky. A bog hag threatening to eat a princess that can't seem to stay away from her. Astronauts conversing as one hurtles into Jupiter's atmosphere on a doomed voyage. A woman cursed to grow flowers from her skin when kissed and the knight that promises to save her.Inspired by fairy tales, folklore, classic science fiction, and more. Love is all around us-and more magical than ever in these tales of overcoming the obstacles that keep us apart.

Sapphic Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories

The Soft Landing Collection

Rules for Loving Haunted Girls

There's a Bog Hag in the woods. There's a Bog Hag in the woods who will devour anyone who crosses her path. There's a Bog Hag in the woods who dwells under a crumbling bridge. There's a Bog Hag in the woods, an ancient witch who is powerful beyond belief and would rather be left alone.Only fools and lost souls go to the woods where mythical creatures freely dwell. That does not stop a foreign princess from going there to meet the Hag for curiosity's sake. That does not stop her from falling into something she never intended to. There's a Bog Hag in the woods, and a princess that can't seem to stay away from her.A fairy tale about foolish nobility and angry magical women who would rather be left alone-until they don't anymore.

The Bog Hag

Do not fall in love with girls on floating islands. Do not grab her letter from the sky and chase her unknown outline into the heavens. Do not follow little lights into the darkness and lose your way- or find it.Winifred Otiena lives in a city that shares a very special holiday with a floating continent: they send paper airplanes up to their sister land each year. The island in exchange passes down lanterns of every color back to earth. Winnie is young when she catches her first lantern and reads the note tucked away inside.She is young when she starts to fantasize about meeting the girl who wrote it and eventually trying to reach her. As she grows older, her search continues, and her feelings begin to shift when her hopes seem fully realized. A story of a far-off future where two girls are separated by sky and land and how they slowly fall for one another- as well as rise.

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