Romance that doesn't fit neatly into binary categories — stories where desire moves outside the traditional F/M frame and the characters' genders are part of what makes the dynamic specific and interesting. These stories are written with the same care for interiority and heat as every other collection here.
— Pairing: Non-Binary —
Desire beyond the binary.
Stories in this collection
4 storiesThe Keeping
Free dark fantasy romance flash fiction — a curse takes Lucan to the moor from the first frost to the thaw and gives him back only for the single night the year turns over. Rook, the hedge-witch who has loved him through nine winters, climbs up in the dark to meet him — and this year they have found a way to break the cycle, at a price Lucan refuses to let them pay.
Farsight Station
Free sci-fi romance short story — sensor tech Jules Adeyemi and station engineer Noor Bahri have one last night on a decommissioning outpost to watch a comet that returns once every three centuries reach perihelion, and to finally say what four years of careful professionalism never let them say.
The Breeches Role
Free historical romance short story — Georgian London, 1780s. Player Kit Aldous performs both Sebastian and his disguised sister at the Coronet, and lives between the two off-stage as well. The company's new swordmaster, Tomas Reyes, is the first person who never asks which they really are.
Between Forms
Marine biologist Dr. Petra Solberg has stopped expecting anything to be simple. The selkie on her Scottish research island moves between forms and hasn't decided yet if that's attractive or dangerous.