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Really Short Standalone SFF Reads

Speculative (sci-fi, fantasy, horror etc.) novellas less than 200 pages long that are either standalone or read like a standalone story

This is How You Lose the Time War

All Systems Red

To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Saturation Point

This is How You Lose the Time War

All Systems Red

Sapphic Novellas

Novellas (less than 200 pages) featuring sapphic characters and/or romances!

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This is How You Lose the Time War

The Mimicking of Known Successes

Finna

A Wolf Steps in Blood

This is How You Lose the Time War

The Mimicking of Known Successes

Queer Horror & Thriller

Is it bury your gays if they're all queer?

Manhunt

Moonflow

I Make My Own Fun

The Haunting of William Thorn

Manhunt

Moonflow

bite-size SFFH (but it bites back)

SFFH novellas for when you don't have the time for an 800 page epic but crave that mineral. rich worlds and characters that linger in your mind. includes queer, diverse, intersectional reads. Recs welcome, this is a work of love in progress ✨

The Ballad of Black Tom

A Dead Djinn in Cairo

The Black God's Drums

The Haunting of Tram Car 015

The Ballad of Black Tom

A Dead Djinn in Cairo

sapphic horror

Extasia

The Night of Baba Yaga

Eyes Guts Throat Bones

Blood and Muscle

Extasia

The Night of Baba Yaga

Sapphic Stories

List WLW and otherwise sapphic novels

The Unbroken

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame

The Beauty's Blade: Mei Ren Jian (Novel)

The Jasmine Throne

The Unbroken

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame

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