Stories! and they lived happily ever after

This first one is a lovely true story that could so easily shift into a faerie story. I was addicted to a high-pressure job when a baby hare came into my life. How would raising it change me? by Chloe Dalton, via oursin.

This story just won the 2024 Sturgeon Award, and it's fantastic. I'm surprised I haven't seen it posted all over. Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 by R.S.A. Garcia. Via her delighted post on wandering.shop. "I'm the first person from Trinidad and Tobago to win. What an incredible, blessed year! First the Nebula, then the Sturgeon!"

The Music Must Always Play by Marissa Linden, mrissa. A different kind of alien contact story.

Several stories from the 2024 Just Married exchange, recommended by Irina Rempt. I liked how In a Land Far Away by nununununu subverted expectations, and the care in another leg around you in the bed frame by DontStopHerNow, even though such overt hurt/comfort isn't quite my thing.

Many stories at the Queer Liberation Library! I just applied for membership.

Bonus Astronomy Picture of the Day that should be a book cover and a writing prompt A Night Sky over the Tatra Mountains photographed by Marcin Rosadziński.