Meet the Monsterotica Contributors: Katia Anyway and Teddy Sweet
Our next anthology, Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling, is crowdfunding on Kickstarter now through December 2nd! We’ve introduced four of the sixteen authors already, and shared excerpts from their stories – Kitty Lee, MJ Kiwiana, Jaye Anderson, and Lyonel Loy. Today, meet two more: Katia Anyway and Teddy Sweet!
Author: Katia Anyway
About: Hi! I’m Katia_Anyway (They/Them). I’m a fanfiction writer who dreams of publishing all the original stories swirling in their brain one day. I love participating in zines and anthologies, it’s a great occasion to meet new amazing artists and writers! If you check out my AO3, you’ll find a lot of One Piece fanfics but I’m in many other fandoms, I just haven’t had time to write for them all yet!
Links: Archive of Our Own | Bluesky | Tumblr
Story Title: A Tantalizing Smell
Excerpt:
The wind blows through branches, making leaves shift and caress each other, the soft melody of it sending a wave of peacefulness through the deep forest. A few giggles rise to accompany this melody. The feelings of one’s leaves caressing someone else’s is a delightful tease for the dryads during mating season.
The Westside Forest is the deepest forest of the country, so deep that no living creature has ever reached the other side to find out what’s there. Is it an unknown neighboring country, a mountain, perhaps even a sea? No one knows.
No one, except perhaps the inhabitants of the forest themselves.
Author: Teddy Sweet
About: In theory Teddy writes LGBT+ romance novels. In practice they manage a menagerie of 12 pets (including 8 snakes) and sneak away from them to frantically type as much as humanly possible before their laptop is nudged out of the way in favour of a dog or cat demanding long-overdue adoration. If not wrangling a beloved animal or writing, Teddy can be found under a pile of blankets, knitting another one. On a rainy day they enjoy avoiding the delights of classic British weather by gaming, getting especially engrossed in choice-based endings.
Previous works include contributions to Gender Euphoria and a stint as a resident author at a short story subscription service.
Story Title: Robust Love
Excerpt:
On the morning of the ceremony, Hakri was helping brush Navees down, the grey of his coat shiny and almost silver in the light. Behind him, Evlor was hard at work braiding Hakri’s black tail, tongue poking out from the corner of his mouth as he focused. As promised, he’d bought some glass beads of varying sizes in a shade so deep they were almost black.
“Braid it tighter,” Hakri huffed as he looked over his back.
“Any tighter and it’ll give you a butt lift so tight your hole will be smiling.” Despite his words, Evlor pulled the braid a little tighter.
“It’ll be a nice change, seeing you smiling from all sides,” Navees butted in, and leaned over to fuss with shining his hooves. A small grunt of effort escaped him, but he was determined to reach them. Hakri lowered himself down and tenderly took the polish from lax fingers. Wiping down the nearest hoof, he glanced up, pleased with himself.
“Teamwork, yeah?” Hakri rumbled fondly, and gladly accepted the hand reaching to ruffle his curly hair. For a change, it wasn’t clasped in a tight bun, ringlets free and wild the way he not-so-secretly preferred.
Read the whole stories by buying your copy today, before the duration of the campaign runs out!
