Isadora has the extreme fortune of inheriting her grandfather’s airship containing an automaton navigation system named Rosie, who happens to be much more to Isadora than a Steampunk GPS.īuilt to be a living work of art, Violina is the most beautiful Musiton-a musical instrument automaton-to have ever been created.

Every day, Chris and Raz pick over the bodies for parts they can sell…until Chris finds a body unlike the others. Now, when her world is slowly crumbling again, a girl in an arcade brings back unexpected magic.Īt the Festival of Stars, Alethia carries a heart in a lantern, moving with the others in an ancient ritual of love.Ĭhris, and her little brother Raz, live in the Broken Streets down by the dock–where the dead bodies of Chematech’s imperfect clones are flushed out. This collection is part of Project Unicorn, a fiction project that seeks to address the near nonexistence of lesbian main characters in young adult fiction by giving them their own stories.Īs a little girl, Helena thought the nickel pony outside of the dollar store gave her good luck: then it went away, and took her good luck with it. Sarah Diemer - Jennifer Diemer - Artificial HeartsĪRTIFICIAL HEARTS is a bewitching collection of young adult short stories, ranging from science fiction to fantasy, all featuring a lesbian heroine. Envy is brave but is now faced with an almost impossible task: to journey through the cursed forest in the hopes of saving her beloved Merle. On the night of their planned escape, Merle is kidnapped by a band of brigands seeking the treasure of her father, the Blackbird King.

When Merle, no ghost at all, reveals her terrible truth-cursed to spend daylight as a blackbird, night as the mortal woman she once was-Envy confesses, too: that she’s fallen for the blackbird girl.īut love has made them reckless in a forest of dangerous men. Infuriated, the king banishes her to Bran Tower, a haunted, forgotten prison of no escape.īut, by day, a mysterious blackbird brings Envy crumbs of food-and, by night, the beautiful ghost Merle befriends her.

When one of her more audacious gambles gets her caught, Envy thinks her luck’s run out. Envy is a lucky lady with a secret vice: she’s one of the best thieves in the kingdom-something her current employer, the king himself, has no knowledge of.

One Imbolc Gloaming by Elora Bishop