theia“I was born the same way you were: amid violent collisions in a hot plane of swirling gas, the accretions of our dead elders coming together to form new life.”
Fiction
speculative
Flash fiction
space
Gwyneth Findlay
writer & editor. aberdeen, scotland. eyes on the sky.
United Kingdom
Selected work (10 publications)
how to write your first queer love letter“You’ll choke on it; say it a thousand different ways without ever saying it at all. This reticence is your armor; this truth is your arrow twitching to pierce its target.”
hybrid
queer
awed by her splendor“I wonder if humanity has loved anything as long as it has loved the moon.”
Essay
i can’t stay here“I acted on behalf of those I figured would reject me. I left little space for doubt, no avenues for reconnection. I became used to telling people about the bridges I burned, but that’s not quite right. I didn’t burn them.”
queer
personal essay