“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
The rules are simple enough. Write a complete story—either sci fi, fantasy, or paranormal. Make sure it has LGBT characters and/or an LGBT vibe. And do it all with just 300 words.The stories in this volume run the gamut, from platypus shifters to alien
Kids. They laugh, they scream, they play. They're innocent and harmless, cute and cuddly, the apple of their parents' eye. Or... None of the above applies. Kids can be the joy of a couple's life, but in the world of horror, they are anything but. These ki