We’re Here 2021 is edited by L.D. Lewis & series editor Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews. 258 pages. Epub file.

We’re Here 2021 includes the following stories:

• “The Captain and the Quartermaster” by C.L. Clark (Beyond Ceaseless Skies)

• “A Study in Ugliness” by H. Pueyo (The Dark)

• “Mulberry and Owl” by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny)

• “The Lake, the Valley, the Border Between Water and Wood, and the End of Things” by Watson Neith (Translunar Traveler’s Lounge)

• “Let All the Children Boogie” by Sam J. Miller (Tordotcom)

• “The Hidden Language of Flowers” by Laurel Beckley-Jackson (Misspelled: Magic Gone Awry edited by Kelly Lynn Colby)

• “The Art and Mystery of Thea Wells” by Alexandra Seidel (Diabolical Plots)

• “To Rest and To Create” by LA Knight (FIYAH)

• “A Technical Term, Like Privilege” by Bogi Takács (Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird edited by C. Dombrowski and Scott Gable)

• “Root Rot” by Fargo Tbakhi (Apex)

• “Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station” by Ann LeBlanc (Mermaids Monthly)

• “Blood in the Thread” by Cheri Kamei (Tordotcom)

• “Sutekh: A Breath of Spring” by Sharang Biswas (Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness edited by dave ring)

• “To Rise, Blown Open” by Jen Brown (Anathema: Spec from the Margins)

• "To Exhale Sky” by Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Baffling)

Our incredible cover is by Paul Kellam.

PRAISE

"With this lovely anthology, Lewis and Payseur collect 15 speculative shorts that range widely in tone and genre, but all circle themes of love and identity...There's something here for any reader of speculative fiction to admire."
—Publishers Weekly