The Fire and the Place in the Forest

"Reading this collection is like handling a charm-bracelet from a lost time: each piece is carefully wrought and gleaming with emotion and beauty, and worth turning in your fingertips for a while. A subtle and heartfelt exploration of queer history, fairytale, and the glorious pain of living." - Freya Marske, author of A Restless Truth and A Marvellous Light "To be read late at night, as the rain batters the window panes: a book of beautiful, otherworldly, unexpected prose, with a rich Jewish sensibility and sense of wonder." - Iona Datt Sharma, author of Not for Use in Navigation

The circle is always closing. In crazy times, this essential selection of the fiction and poetry of Jeannelle M. Ferreira holds out a branch of lights kindled from chosen futures and pasts always close behind, where history never confines itself to one familiar face and selkies and demons offer as much inheritance as memories, bodies, or ghosts. Intimately Jewish, integrally queer, these are tales for holding on to. They know how to remember and to change.

Eighteen years of stories and poems from small queer presses, 'zines, podcasts and other corners of the universe are collected here, alongside new work, for the first time.