Emily Flummox' unapologetically Queer debut collection includes eir previously published essays, short stories, and poetry as well as the previously unpublished "The Fog of Time Means We're Everywhere" and select unpublished poems. The title story, "Civilization Stained These Young Things," is a dark fantasy about faeries and a dangerous and magical dance as old as time that brings the colors to roses in bloom.
The complete contents are:
Kiss Me, I'm A Prince (poem)
Civilization Stained These Young Things (short story)
Tlazolteotl (in the Language of Asatru and Hinduism) Or: Because I Do Not Know Your Language Well Enough Yet (poem)
Like All That Lives, We Eat Death: The TTRPG (essay)
Mammalian Nuances (poem)
The Fog of Time Means We're Everywhere (short story)
The Ceremonies Begin (poem),
A Prayer from a Blacksmith's Apprentice (flash fiction)
We Are Already So Many Different Kinds of Ancestor (poem)
My Arrows are as Plentiful as Dust, My Shield is as Inevitable as Trash (essay)
Nutrition (poem)