Reality can be different for everyone. One could believe their reality includes angels, eager to help if they are in trouble. One could insinuate that their world is full of mythical beasts. And Sophia Smith could swear that her world was nothing special. For every college student, life is similar. They live with roo...
Nicolás Velez is done with casual sex. Listen, yes, he might've fucked everyone in his flat within the first week of living in halls and had a respectable run on Grindr, but what eighteen-year-old wouldn't? He's almost twenty-four now, though, and sleeping with people who won't remember his name five minutes later is...
Miles Hoàng's life is perfect. He has the perfect best-friend-slash-boyfriend-slash-bane-of-his-existence, Ziri Meziani. They live in a perfect (if a little cramped) apartment above a Nepalese restaurant they get food from at a discount whenever they're both too lazy to cook. He has a perfect (meaning decent) job with...
A skeleton is all that keeps Ziri Meziani from becoming a ghost. Born to a prosaic town in East Sussex, Ziri is more than used to the company of his thoughts and daydreams, a habit nobody took issue with until 2006. Crediting it to him merely being reserved, they'd shrug and leave him to wander the uncharted terrain o...
Wrath will cremate Cecilio Velez to the bone. Their veins are a grid of tripwires and his heart a handmade nail bomb. One touch, bang! Beewolf -his personal demon manifested from childhood nightmares, a wasp striped red rather than yellow- has coerced them to be profligate with a flamethrower. There's nothing he won't...
The real world skins you alive. It's a hazard of growing up in rural Suffolk... or possibly, it's a hazard of growing up. Either way, the Dorian Andrade and Isaiah Matalon who run into each other at a party in Oxford have become equally disenchanted imitations of the boys who used to spend summers eating stolen apples...