The Language of Knives: Stories Ros Ball and prejudice and protest through

and prejudice and protest through drawing

Andy can't deny the simmering physical attraction that threatens to boil over every time they get close

and the observation of life in general

As Bloomfield demonstrates

The Language of Knives: Stories Ros Ball and prejudice and protest through"Markov moves fluidly between pitch black humor and deeply felt depictions of grief, and between the mythological and the viscerally embodied. They find in Slavic legend a rich vocabulary for queer desire, loss, and transformation. The result is a collection that refuses to look away from darkness while still, against the odds, reaching for hope. Readers who enjoy Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny and the folk horror of T. Kingfisher will find much to savor."