Sometimes I write stories just because the title makes me giggle. Sometimes I write stories based on books and plays I've never read that were featured on episodes of Wishbone.
Sometimes both of these things happen and I end up with Queerano de Bergerac. It’s like Cyrano de Bergerac but it’s queer, and it’s available now in Queer Blades anthology!
My version of the story takes place on the moon during an uneasy period of peace between the native moon people and the colonizers from earth, and features a noseless, overly eloquent alien who falls in love with the human Roxanne but helps her awkward friend woo her instead when she becomes convinced that Roxanne will never love her back.
It is very not scientific. It’s really inspired by the science fiction stories from the early 1900s where every planet has a breathable atmosphere and gravity comparable to earth, and there are rayguns and swords and European colonization allegories all smooshed together. But from the point of view of the aliens and the few good earthlings that want to help their peoples live in peace.
And also it is very gay.
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