“If literature had a secret underground club… the kind with fairy wings, blood rites, and metaphorical glitter bombs… then Civilization Stained These Young Things would hold the secret password to get in.” – Angela Yuriko Smith, Publisher of Space and Time

Emily Flummox’ unapologetically Queer debut collection includes eir previously published essays, short stories, and poetry as well as the previously unpublished “The Fog of Time Means We’re Everywhere” and select unpublished poems. The title story, “Civilization Stained These Young Things,” is a dark fantasy about faeries and a dangerous and magical dance as old as time that brings the colors to roses in bloom.

“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.

Table of Contents
Copyright Page………………………………………………………………………………..1
Dedication ……………………………………………………………………………………….8
Civilization Just Got Deliciously Weird………………………………………. 12
Kiss Me, I’m A Prince…………………………………………………………………… 14
Civilization Stained These Young Things…………………………………….. 16
Tlazolteotl (in the Language of Asatru and Hinduism) Or: Because
I Do Not Know Your Language Well Enough Yet …………………………….. 21
Like All That Lives, We Eat Death: The TTRPG……………………….. 23
Mammalian Nuances……………………………………………………………………. 29
The Fog of Time Means We’re Everywhere………………………………….. 31
The Ceremonies Begin …………………………………………………………………. 47
A Prayer from a Blacksmith’s Apprentice…………………………………….. 49
We Are Already So Many Different Kinds of Ancestor………………. 52
My Arrows are as Plentiful as Dust, My Shield is as Inevitable as
Trash ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 54
Nutrition ………………………………………………………………………………………. 58
About Emily Flummox…………………………………………………………………. 60
About Dooky Zines……………………………………………………………………… 61