cover by the Winter Cynic

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re: The Red Blossom Blades [final edits], by shukyou (主教)

Amber Waves, by spicy-wrenegade *

(Un)Speakable, by Kit Miller

What the Gods Want With a Starship, by Iron Eater *

Making Merry, by Togi Kayako (土宜草子) *

Confabulation of Desire, by Devin Ambrosia *

[▬▬▬▬], by Chibisaboten

Afterimage, by Etienne Telling

*illustrated

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Sweet Fruits, by Devin Ambrosia

Taste, by Jacke Hunter

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Welcome to Shousetsu Bang*Bang, the happy home of absolutely unobjectionable content!

That’s right! In our pages, you’ll find absolutely nothing for your purity-culture heart to worry about! There’s nothing in here that might get a “mature content” label slapped on it, hindering our social media reach! There’s absolutely nothing that would get this issue taken down by our ebook distributors because some automatic scanning process detected that there might be some no-no words and maybe a naughty picture or two! There is without doubt not a single thing that would give even a moment’s pause to a morally and ideologically pure individual who determines their own self-worth by the peer-group acceptance of the media they consume and thinks everything would be better for the LGBTQIAA2SMOGAI+ community if most of those letters would just be a little more normal!

In short, in this, our newest issue, you will find no s*x, no p*rn, no q-slurs, no boobies, no nip-nops, no wee-wees, no hoo-hahs, and definitely, positively, absolutely no happy romantic stories jam-packed with smoking hot explicit queer f*cking!

…Goddammit, I said there weren’t going to be any q-slurs, didn’t I? Well, great, I fucked it up again. Fuck me, this one’s never getting by the algorithm now.

Whatever. Fuck it. Just start reading.

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(For summaries, creators’ notes, and more, we would usually tell you to see this issue’s entry on the Shousetsu Bang*Bang wiki. In the interim, however, please visit the relevant Google Doc of contributor commentary for similar content.)