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A little behind on posting this overview cause, well, gestures vaguely at the last week. I think y’all understand.

In October, we officially published our most recent anthology, Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica and what leftover merchandise we have from the crowdfunding campaign. We also released an awesome nine stories to our Patreon, hosted a panel on Why Tell Stories? (the recording available to some Patreon backers!), and released a new exclusive artwork as well. Read on to learn all about everything.

Indeed, we did so much in October that putting it all in a Dreamwidth post just isn't going to work, so instead - here, have an overview, and for all the deets, visit our blog post on duckprintspress.com!

Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica

General Imprint Short Story Releases

RE: Sleeping Beauty by Nicola Kapron. Mythology-Inspired Science Fiction with Fantasy Elements. M/M, Document-Based Storytelling, Fairy Tale Retelling.
The Ending Line of Casablanca by Lucy K. R. Modern. NB First Person Point of View, Trope Inversion, Enemies to Friends. First in the Queer as Flors ‘verse!
Going Dark by Max Jason Peterson. Modern Horror. Bigender Main Character, Character Death, Photography, Accidental Murder.
Unsafe Haven by Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec. Science Fiction. M/M Pre-Relationship, Resistance Against Injustice. Prequel to sweet static, second story in the Mechanica ‘verse!

Explicit Imprint Short Story Releases

sweet static by Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec. Science Fiction Erotica. M/M Human/Android, Wire Play. First story in the Mechanica ‘verse!
The Author Could Not Think of a Title by Lyonel Loy. Crack Fantasy Reader-Insert Metafiction. Threesome, Spanking, Humor.
Goals by R. L. Houck. Modern Erotica. M/M Established Relationship, Slice of Life.
The Benefits of Consequences by Dei Walker. Fantasy Erotica. F/M Bi4Bi, Pegging, Magical Body Modification.
Running Mates by boneturtle. Modern Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics Erotica. F/F, Well-Endowed Female Alpha, Friends to Lovers.

Original Art Releases

A crop of a larger piece of artwork. It shows a dainty hand reaching toward water, where the reflection emerges from the water as a larger hand clad in armor.

I want to be different. by Jagoda Zirebiec

Jagoda had this to say about the inspiration behind this piece: Instead focusing on relationships, i wanted to play around “self-reflection”. So i came up with a idea of trans character seeing their “ideal” self in a water reflection, here a medieval setting, so ideal is a knight.

October Patron Panel

Why Tell Stories?

Description: We love to tell stories, and we feel the desire, and sometimes need, to tell them and share them. That much is a given, but it begs the question: why do we feel that way? There are surely as many answers to this as there are people, but when we enter into discussion with our fellow storytellers, some common threads emerge. Discussing our reasons, those that we share and those in which we differ, is the purpose of this panel. Some of the topics we will discuss in this panel are: what has drawn each of us to tell stories, how do we decide which stories to tell, who do we tell these stories to, how do we decide how to tell these stories (such as what storytelling formats to use, how to approach narrative framing, etc.), what we consider a “successful” story, and, in the end, we’ll aim for a synthesis conversation to answer the original question: why tell stories?

Panelists: May , Sage Mooreland, boneturtle, Alex Bauer, Sebastian Marie, and Rhosyn Goodfellow

A recording of this panel is available to Patreon backers at the $10/month level and higher!

Alternating Thursdays, we release new short stories to our Patreon! More than 40 stories are available to ALL backers from the moment they back, with more at every level to a total of more than 100 for our highest-level backers. Backers also get access to our Discord server, coupons to use in our webstore, exclusive extras for backing crowdfunding campaign, opportunities to vote for our anthology themes and request short story topics, access to contribute to our blog posts, and much, much more.