Harmony Ink Press is delighted and honored to showcase the short fiction of some of the best up-and-coming authors working in the LGBT genre. The stories in this third volume of Harmonious Hearts represent the winners of our Young Author Challenge—a group of talented writers between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one.
The stories in this anthology are as diverse as their creators and range from the speculative to snapshots of everyday life for people growing up in a society in flux. They confront many issues facing young adults, and they celebrate the joys of this sometimes rocky period of transition: friendship, loyalty, first love, and learning to feel comfortable in one’s own skin. These experiences are universal, and thanks to the courage and talent of authors such as these, young people of all gender identities, expressions, and orientations are starting to see themselves included. Everyone deserves a story that speaks to them, and in these pages, they’ll find that story.
Dani Anderson—
To Lauren
Nick Anthony—
Scrapyard Sunsets
Hilda Friday—
A Progression of Love
Arbour Ames—
You Saw Blue
Chloe Smith—
Plenty of Fish
Caleb Andrews—
I Am Logan
Sarah Caulfield—
Make Mad the Guilty
Xoe Juliani—
Loving You Through the Years
Irene Grant—
Jordan and A.J.
Latitude Brown—
Equinox
Anika Olivo—
Melodimensional
Frisk Gillespie—
Ten Words