Loving Safoa by Liza Wemakor begins in 1999 in New York, takes the reader back to Ghana in 1799, and finally presents a vision for the future, all in the space of a novella. Cynthia, a human, is in a committed relationship with the vampire Safoa. After eight years together, she still hasn’t learned about howRead More
An Unsettling Gothic Sapphic Romance: Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez
Muñeca is a gothic sapphic romance that releases this June. We follow Natalia, a witch who has recently taken on a job to work as a caretaker for Violetta Miramontes, a young woman paralysed mysteriously a few years ago. Natalia is convinced it is a curse; it’s part of the reason she sought out the job inRead More
The Horror of Empire, Tempered with Hope: Countess by Suzan Palumbo Review
Begin your year with revolution! Or at least that’s what I thought when I picked up Suzan Palumbo’s Countess. The novella invokes the anti-colonialist spirit so desperately needed in 2026, and it opens with an inscription that acknowledges the crater of its impact: There is horror here, but there is also always hope. We meet our protagonist,Read More
Drew Huff’s Landlocked in Foreign Skin Gets Under Your Skin
With only a few weeks left in the year, 2025 still managed to thrill me with a brilliantly strange and unexpected sapphic sci fi novella: Landlocked in Foreign Skin by Drew Huff. Thus, my novella kick continues. What can I say? Things have been hard lately and sometimes you just need a confection, oozing and tentacled asRead More
Throughout Space and Time: Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon
Seth Haddon’s Volatile Memory follows scavenger Wylla as she the call of an alluring piece of tech—one that will make her a lot of money. Things are not as they seem: the tech is attached to a dead body, and once removed, it speaks to her. What follows leads our mask, HAWK, and Wylla to race acrossRead More
A Queer and Feminist Murder Ballad: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar Review
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is a modern sapphic classic, but I somehow I ended up reading El-Mohtar’s new novella first. It did not disappoint—in fact, it was the final push I needed to finally pick up This is How You Lose the Time War, andRead More
A Delicious and Grotesque Bite of a Novella: But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo
I picked up But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo because I heard it was a fun sapphic horror novella, and because I’m always eager to read more genre fiction in translation. (This was originally published in Portuguese and was translated by the author.) At barely over 100 pages, it’s a quick sprint, perfect to read inRead More
The Indefinable, Creeping Dread of Yellow Jessamine by Caitlin Starling
Caitlin Starling’s Yellow Jessamine is the novella to reach for on a dreary day. It was gray and rainy in late October when I read it, so the setting was perfect. Starling’s novella is a thoroughly gothic horror with light sapphic undertones, so if the yearning™ isn’t your thing, this may not be the title for you. Read More
A Sapphic Dragon-Slaying Knight: Brighter Than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang Review
In Brighter Than Scale, Swifter than Flame, Neon Yang gives us a bright, fast-paced novella about dragons and knights and clandestine feelings. I have to admit, I was initially drawn in by the luscious cover art by Tran Nguyen, featuring a tough woman in beautiful armor with a second gorgeous, tattooed woman draped over her back asRead More
A (Christmas) Light in the Darkness: All is Bright by Llinos Cathryn Thomas
Full disclosure: the author is a friend and provided me with an eARC of this novella in exchange for an honest review. Thankfully, I tend to enjoy everything she writes, so this is neither a hardship nor a friendship-ending challenge! It was actually a humid, sunny, 31-degree late summer Toronto day when I wrote thisRead More
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