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The average adult male is approximately 60% water. Blood tastes salty as more than two thirds of the sodium circulating throughout your body is carried in arteries and veins. Which means that your heart is like a miniature ocean within your chest. Chaz Brenchley has not only been awarded the British Fantasy Society's August Derleth Award but knows all too well the storms and dangers of the heart: the lofty desires, the grieving nadirs, the tempest of love. In Bitter Watters, his first short story collection devoted to gay readers, Brenchley offers men fantastical instances to effleurer, to break for taller timber, to drown in emotions. And while not every tale in this breathtaking collection involves the sea, tears and bloodshed still need to be navigated.

Jonathan wakes up in hospital and is told he has been involved in a car crash. He doesn't remember the last three months, and the doctors say he's only been there three days. He also doesn't remember the woman by his bedside who says she is his wife, but she has the pictures that seem to prove it.

This short story originally appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #191, Januari 2016. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017, edited by Rich Horton.

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Rowan Coffey, one of those hyper-smart young men who are generally too bright for their own good, is nineteen when one of his friends is murdered. Rowan, who had no alibi and was under suspicion, has been knocked off-balance by the experience and leaves university seeking the comfort and familiarity of home.

But Rowan's valley is under threat. A New Age convoy has rolled in and brought police and the potential of violence, and a water company wants to damming the river to create a reservoir which will drown Rowan's childhood. Then the promised violence erupts, and Rowan is drawn into battle by forces he never believed existed...

This story originally appeared in Lightspeed Magazine: Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Special Edition, June 2015. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016, edited by Rich Horton, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (2016), edited by Gardner Dozois and Wilde Stories 2016: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction (2016), edited by Steve Berman.

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Short story originally published in Subterranean, Spring 2014. It can also be found in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (2015).

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In this Martian city, each stop along the monorail has a purpose behind its namesake. However, none are quite like the Station of the Twelfth, and if you decide to visit, you'll be sure to learn why.

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When Benedict leaves home, he learns more than he ever learnt at university. And as his family start to die - gruesome, horrible deaths - he learns that you can't turn your back on blood.

Returning home from Spain, Benedict Macallan discovers that greed has run rampant through his family, and Uncle James has taken over the town. In desperation the townspeople have banded together and kidnapped the Macallan women. Something has got to give, and it is unlikely to be Uncle James.

The desert kingdom of Outremer is ruled by a harsh king whose will is enforced by warrior-priests called Ransomers. But when a young Ransomer in training meets the daughter of the King's Shadow, the reign of blood and magic will be changed forever.

War is about to tear Outremer apart. The young knight Marron has left the Order and Julianne, daughter of the King's shadow, has had another visitation from the djinni Khaldor. They will leave the Roq de Rançon-and carry away its greatest secret.

The Sharai tribes await the coming of the Ghost Walker-long promised deliverer of their people-unaware that he walks among them, and that their enemies have the ability to control him.

Enemies of long standing are united under the fiercely charismatic Hasan-and Outremer may be defeated before the first battle has even been fought. But one woman could make a difference...

In the fifth book of Outremer, a heretic people threaten the fragile peace-and a renegade state becomes the battleground.

The thrilling conclusion to the critically acclaimed Outremer series finds warriors from both the Knights Ransomer and the Sharai confronting the King on Mount Ascariel.

The first major fantasy novel from the author of the popular Outremer series.

In the city known as Maras-Sund, an uneasy peace threatens to unravel between two cultures. And a young man and woman will find their own destinies: one determined to hold onto power and supremacy, the other struggling for survival-and freedom.

The city of Maras-Sund has stood for more than 20 years-two lands joined together by a magical bridge the Marasai used to conquer the Sundain. But the man known as Issel has magic of his own- an ability to manipulate water- which he will use to free his people. He finds an ally in Jendre, the daughter of a general in Maras's army, and a woman with her own vendetta against the regime. Her sister is held captive, along with others whose life essences power the magical bridge between her land and Sund. Her plan: to help Issel enter the palace and break the spell.