We’ve had a very busy October here at Duck Prints Press. In addition to the release of remaining merchandise from our Pride Dragons Merchandise Campaign, the listing of the Art Prints of Works Originally Published to our Patreon, and the general release of our latest print title, the novelette The Agony of Authenticity by Lyn Weaver, we also released six new short stories to our Patreon, hosted a panel on Writing Tools and Techniques, and posted new artwork by Max Jason Peterson! 

Become a backer of the Duck Prints Press Patreon, support independent queer publishing, and gets lots of awesome stuff! Read on to learn all about our new releases…

SHORT STORIES: 

Title: Flight Plans
Author: Max Jason Peterson

fantasy, non-binary main character, bittersweet, grief recovery

Excerpt: Liliana’s dad moved her halfway across the country. I tried hard to find her. But there are so many ways to hide. Especially for witches. My spells weren’t enough to see past the cloud of confusion they encountered, and the last thing I wanted was to force my will on hers.

Having nearly incinerated the love of my life, I was loath to try sleeping with anyone else.

Available to all backers of the Duck Prints Press Patreon!

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Title: Ex as in Expired
Author: Nicola Kapron

modern, m/m, vampire x ghost, when your love dies but it’s okay cause you’re immortal

Excerpt: On the last day of every month, Sunny summons his ex-boyfriend from the dead. That’s “ex” as in “expired,” not “ex” as in “former,” because he’s never letting go.

Available to backers at the $5/month level and higher!

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Title: Flying Fish
Author: Lyonel Loy

gen, the inspirational power of friendship, disabled main character

Excerpt: Once upon a time, a gryphon with a bent wing lived in a cave high up on a lonely cliff, deep in the mountains by the edge of the world.

Available only to backers at the $25/month level!

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Title: Dear “Xutuix”!?
Author: J. D. Harlock

gen, epistolary, satire as told through a story rejection letter

Excerpt: Dear *¥+¥!,
Or is it “Xutuix”?
Unfortunately, I am afraid that on this occasion, we will have to reject “Confessions of an Interplanetary Time Dilator on the Carputhian Beat in the Mean Streets of Galaxar.” We usually don’t respond to submissions (especially since we’re only taking nonfiction, at the moment). However, you mentioned you were a resident alien, and we did announce that underrepresented writers would receive personalized feedback on improving their writing moving forward.

Available to backers at the $10/month level and higher!

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Title: Snow Day Memories
Author: Merlin Grey

m/m t4t, slice of life during a snow storm, grieving and quilting

Excerpt: The walls keep them insulated from the cold to some extent, but it’s still chilly, and Marques keeps reminding himself that he can’t just turn up the thermostat or turn on a space heater to solve the problem. Even his briefly considered idea of baking something in the oven to heat up the kitchen is quickly discarded when he remembers that, while the stove might be gas-powered, the oven is electric, so it also won’t work when the power is out. He and Theo already grabbed all the blankets in the apartment, but he mentally casts about for anything they might have missed.

“Do you think there might be any extra blankets in the cedar chest?” Marques asks.

Available to backers at the $10/month level and higher!

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Title: Penis Pals
Author: Imogen Cuppaggio

m/m, first person point of view, the eroticism of falling in love with the cryptid who watches you masturbate in the backyard

Excerpt: When my parents died, I could have decided not to sell my parents’ house, my childhood home. I could have stayed and lived with their ghosts looking over my shoulder, along with the ghosts of all the versions of me that existed there. I was in my twenties and not settled anywhere but starting to get that feeling, deep inside, that I wanted to stop wandering, maybe put down roots.

After selling that house and settling their estate and finding a steady job, I took my time finding the right place. I knew I wanted a backyard and at least a little distance from my neighbors. Not a “nobody will hear you scream” sort of distance, but space to stretch out, not be spied on, and to lower the chances the cops would get called.

Because of the nudity.

Available to backers at the $7/month level and higher!

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ARTWORK:

October Patreon Artwork: Forever Halloween
Artist: Max Jason Peterson

The shared image is a crop of the full artwork.

Available to backers at the $5/month level and higher!

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PATREON PANEL:

Title: Writing Tools and Techniques

Panelists: Dei Walker, J. D. Rivers, Alex Bauer, and Max Jason Peterson

Description: Let’s meet together on the first Sunday of October to have a chat about our favorite writing tools and how we use them! This month’s panelists will talk about different tools they’ve used for word processing, editing, researching, outlining, progress tracking, world building, and more. We’ll weigh the pros and cons of our experiences, what we’ve kept using and what we’ve ditched, what we’ve liked and what we haven’t liked, and how we’ve changed our techniques to maximize the utility of the different tools we’ve used. If you’ve got favorite tools, we hope you’ll attend as well and tell us about them!

Recording available to backers at the $7/month level and higher!

Our latest novelette, The Agony of Authenticity by Lyn Weaver, is an eerie explicit guro story about two men with a long-nurtured rivalry and what happens when the deceptions between them finally fall away.

For as long as he can remember, Kai has hated Sakuya. Sakuya is better than him in every subject, every sport, and every hobby they’ve both tried, and people actually like Sakuya, even though his charming smiles are fake as hell.

So when they both sign up for a multi-day mountain hike, Kai seizes the chance to expose Sakuya’s true colours.

But when the hike goes wrong and the two of them are stranded in a liminal space, one too injured to move and the other slowly succumbing to the corruption in the air, their obsession with each other is the only thing they have left.

Their tattered humanity won’t survive the agony of authenticity.

Available now in print and e-book formats on the Duck Prints Press webpage!