They write poetry, fiction, essays on film and culture, and creative non-fiction, often at the same time and in a single piece.

Their first collection of short stories Truth or Dare is out from Cipher Press in July 2023. Adam Zmith is author of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures (Repeater Books, 2021), co-producer of The Log Books podcast, and a dirty little space cadet. So Mayer is a writer, bookseller, organiser and film curator, currently based in London, UK. Their most recent textual pleasure is A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula, 2020). Those who are inexperienced and nervous around those of the other sex may say to themselves, I dont date much, so I must be socially inadequate, so I. So Mayer is a queer feminist writer, bookseller, organiser and anarchival cyborg. Whether you get horny from aliens, ghosts, robots, utopia, possession, ritual, or the completely surreal, there’s a story here for you.īut why stop at one when you can taste pleasure in each and every one? In a word, it’s CruiserShimmeringLipophilicNeckingerCircuitGirlboss. In these ten stories, everything is sex: walls, wax, the past, your future, your neighbours, hankies, candles, circuit boards, petri dishes, scrap metal – and language itself.Ĭonjuring experiences for which there are no words, our amazing queer authors generate new tongues from the heat of their communing with a wild variety of lifeforms.įrom Diriye Osman’s spiritualised Peckham to Jem Nash’s time-travelling trans multiverse, these stories transport you to new ways of being and feeling.

Welcome to your new favourite genre: the f**king fantastic.

Unreal Sex by So Mayer