I Stole You
Stories from the Fae
Kristen Ringman
I wrote the stories with the intention of writing about love in a way that could go beyond gender. I decided to do that by writing from an “other” perspective and not allowing myself to ever mention the gender of the lover/victim. After all, fae creatures could be a metaphor for any “other” or marginalized human beings.
I did this by using second person POV and describing the “you” human in ways that could be either male or female.
In one of my stories, there is a clearly bisexual character, but the reader doesn’t know their gender, so either gender can be imagined.
I did this with Jeanette Winterson’s novel Written on the Body in mind as a successful example of concealing gender, because she told a love story while never mentioning the narrator’s gender.
I also did this to explore the ways how we as humans both love and consume each other, and what human beings might look like from an “other” perspective a slight step away from ourselves.
My stories touch the edges of fantasy and horror genres, though at heart I consider them to be magical realism.
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Details
| ISBN | 978-1-941960-04-2 |
| Genre | Speculative Fiction |
| Publication Date | 10-Apr-17 |
| Publisher | Handtype Press |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 116 |
| Notes | Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Good |
| BookID | 5731 |
