Emptied Spaces - Wyrmsign.org

Paperback, 167 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2022 by Sapphic Sweets & Reads LLC.

ISBN:: 979-8-218-08317-5
Goodreads:: 123254305

(1 review)

It’s less a loose collective of writers and artists than it is a way to describe the shared themes and motifs resonating through them. It’s an angle of approach and the tint of the light and the sound of a doll crying in the other room, just far enough away that you can’t help her. It’s a fallen angel smoking on the overpass and thinking about jumping off even though she knows it won’t kill her.

It’s about trauma, and what comes after. -Else, @maybeelse

A collection of forty seven stories written by twenty two authors part of the empty spaces community. Themes of (not) personhood, release of inhibition, healing through relationships, and more are explored through a plethora of worlds and lenses. Inside smokey clubs and broken workshops, from an alternate Miyagi prefecture to unknown reaches of space, dolls, angels and many other entities find their way through it …

It’s less a loose collective of writers and artists than it is a way to describe the shared themes and motifs resonating through them. It’s an angle of approach and the tint of the light and the sound of a doll crying in the other room, just far enough away that you can’t help her. It’s a fallen angel smoking on the overpass and thinking about jumping off even though she knows it won’t kill her.

It’s about trauma, and what comes after. -Else, @maybeelse

A collection of forty seven stories written by twenty two authors part of the empty spaces community. Themes of (not) personhood, release of inhibition, healing through relationships, and more are explored through a plethora of worlds and lenses. Inside smokey clubs and broken workshops, from an alternate Miyagi prefecture to unknown reaches of space, dolls, angels and many other entities find their way through it all.

1 edition

Elise reviewed Emptied Spaces by Alexandra Moonlight

Underwhelming, but good.

4 stars

I built it up in my head too much, but I was really expecting more from this given how every transfemme with good taste I know says the name "Empty Spaces" with either hushed tones of reverence for what it was, or a sadness at its falling apart. There were a couple of pieces that felt like someone was reading my mind, as well as a one or two more that left me feeling things I can't describe. Largely, those made the experience of reading through the rest of it, which fell very flat, worth it.

Subjects

Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Gay
Fiction / Horror