Category: The Cuil Effect

Interconnected works, characters

Character and Song #74: The Z Seriesen

We mostly ever only hear about A Seriesens in the cuilverse, but in John’s series, Elegant Troubles, we are finally treated to another ship in the Seriesen style. Against a backdrop of universal destruction, the Z Seriesen, piloted by none other than Athena (yes, that Athena), searches for anyone still left alive. Eventually they hope […]

Past Due Updates & C & S #73: Jeanne Delan

First off, fuck Columbus! Happy Indigenous People’s Day! Good. That’s out of the way. Now… After years of struggle, worsening health, and homelessness, I’m happy to say me and the kiddos finally have a stable home on the East Coast! And even better, my family also has a home now on the West Coast. We […]

Cuil Peek: Static in the Dryer — A Story of Possibilities

Also published in The Cuilverse This series is all humans, a rarity in the cuilverse. But this is the cuilverse, so the catch is that neurodiversity-centered humanism has thrived. About a thousand years after the Drone Wars decimated the Earth (there is never just one apocalypse in the cuilverse), humanity has spread out within the […]

C & S #72: Verona Ashton

I know I haven’t done one of these in a while. If you follow me on Medium or in Intersectional Non-Monogamy, you’ll understand why. But I’m happy to say Cuil Press is inexorably drawing closer to incorporation date and I’m fucking excited! There’s also AMaP coming together. So…while I remember to do this, here’s some […]

Cuil Peek: In the Time of Toba

In the beginning, the goddes were assholes. Male and female they made us, Samael and I, out of the dust of Kingu’s remains. Tiamat and Kingu had attempted to quell Marduk’s rise to the upper Echelons of power but were overcome and sent to the underworld, to Irkalla. Marduk assumed his new role as the […]

Cuil Peek: In The Time of Toba

tfw you write the most epic author’s note (thanks for the suggestion, Ripley Santo). The following is taken from In the Time of Toba: Lilith Note: All early humans are Black, regardless of how melanated or non-melanated they appear. Later on, some humans may appear most similar to modern peoples of various Asians and Americans […]

Predators and Prey – Excerpt from You Don’t Belong Here

​Whenever  a  light  had been  shined on  me  in  the  past  it  had  never  been  a  good thing. All of  the  wrong  people  seemed to  be  the  only  ones  to  ever  pay  attention  to  me.  Even  now,  I still  feel anxious  around strangers  and acquaintances.  I  still deal with  that  hypervigilance  that comes  from  suffering […]