Civilization Stained These Young Things and Other Works by Emily Flummox.

Emily Flummox’ unapologetically Queer debut collection is slated for release by July 4, 2025 (timed for release by San Francisco’s BayCon, which is also WesterCon this year!). The book includes eir previously published essays, short stories, and poetry as well as the previously unpublished “The Fog of Time Means We’re Everywhere” and select unpublished poems.

“Civilization Stained These Young Things” is as sensuous as it is sharp in its societal commentary and razor slicing prose. An unforgettable and unapologetic exploration of love, loneliness, and identity through fairies and fog water. A must read. -Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, Qilin Press and Demagogue Press.

The cover is designed by Miki Bizet (Sumiko Saulson) and depicts imagery from the title story, a dark fantasy about faeries and a dangerous and magical dance as old as time that brings the colors to roses in bloom.

Table of Contents:

Kiss Me, I’m A Prince (poem)

Civilization Stained These Young Things (short story)

Tlazolteotl (in the Language of Asatru and Hinduism) Or: Because I Do Not Know Your Language Well Enough Yet (poem)

Like All That Lives, We Eat Death: The TTRPG (essay)

Mammalian Nuances (poem)

The Fog of Time Means We’re Everywhere (short story)

The Ceremonies Begin (poem),

A Prayer from a Blacksmith’s Apprentice (flash fiction)

We Are Already So Many Different Kinds of Ancestor (poem)

My Arrows are as Plentiful as Dust, My Shield is as Inevitable as Trash (essay)

Nutrition (poem)