After an accident involving a truck, Liz wakes up in a world she once thought existed only a video game, as the Evil Dragon Demon Queen no less. She has no idea what to do, where she is, or what's going on. She's not the brightest, or the bravest, the coolest or the most cunning. But she cares, deeply, truly and powerfully, and she's not stopping until she's done everything she can for everyone who needs it.... more>>

Demon Queen is a love letter to fantasy, and a damning indictment of how we don't question a lot of fantasy tropes.

It's also a story about accepting yourself, seeing your flaws for what they are and what they aren't, about vulnerability as a superpower.

It's a story about being trans, about what it means to not know who you are when all you've known is denial and fear.

It's also a story about queer love, about non-traditional relationships, and about expressing your affection to your loved ones without reservation. <<less

In a world of superheroes and villains, Gavin McArthur feels like more of a shell than a person even after he transfers to a school for kids who are likely to soon posses an Alter form, a form that grants the user super powers and a different appearance. But what do you do when your Alter form represents an uncomfortable truth about yourself that you're not prepared to face?... more>>

CW: Contains scenes involving characters struggling with disabilities, themes involving non-consensual de-transition, verbal and emotional abuse, and an instance of descriptive gore. <<less

Emily has a pretty normal life: go to school, study, beat up the bullies who try to start shit, go home, spend time with family. Nothing out of the ordinary here, at all. Not even the fact that she's a closeted trans girl who is biding her time until she can come out to the world and live her life openly.... more>>

A chance encounter with a boy from her school, however, changes all that.

Updates Fridays. With many thanks to TrismegistusShandy for invaluable editing, and to the members of the Writing Lair for comments and suggestions.

Also a huge thank you to my Patrons! Check out my Patreon for previews of chapters to come, and for exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/zoewriting <<less

A Demon Queen. A Hero. An inevitable clash. ... more>>

When both die and find themselves in a world that is alien to them - but familiar to us - they have nobody to rely on but themselves. And maybe each other in this spin on the familiar Isekai genre.

This is a spin-off of "I Didn't Ask To Be The Demon Queen", focusing on the hero, Daniel, and the previous Demon Queen, Eliza, following largely the same story beats but with some changes to the characters.

The work this is based on isn't required reading, as the characters will be set up on their own within this story.

It's also written in a slightly different style, as this will be, largely, a queer romantic comedy. <<less

James was woken up by the feeling of his insides being shredded. His chest hurt, stung and ached. His hips felt like they were being... more>> twisted and sculpted from within.
When morning comes around, he wakes up in a body that doesn't feel like his. In a desperate attempt to figure things out, he calls his ex-best friend Katie to help him understand what is happening to him and maybe reconcile the friendship they destroyed.
Content warnings for depictions of extreme gender dysphoria. Some transphobia. Themes of depression. <<less

A college student receives a strange offer from his MMO character to trade places with her for the week. He accepts, but the spell misfires,... more>> sending him into the game as a young girl! Now, she's racing against time to save her soulless body before it's too late. But first, she needs to discover the fundamental truth about herself...
Cover art by @aeijanart on Twitter! <<less

With exams and graduation right around the corner, a closeted trans teen worries about drifting apart from her two best friends - either due to her coming out, or as life takes them in different directions after high-school. That is, until an unexpected development leads both her and her friends to learn more about themselves and each other, in ways that bring all three of them closer than ever.... more>>

Note: This story features trans and non-binary / gender fluid characters. There will also be depictions of hetero, same-sex, and poly relationships. <<less

"No, not that. Not teenagers!"... more>>

Leading a team of monster-fighting teenagers isn't easy. Joanne knows this. After leading her team into an awful situation she is saved by a mysterious Gold ranger. Now she just has to figure out if he's trustworthy, and why he refuses to show his face.

This is a rewrite of the original. It's a parody of your normal Super Sentai/Power Rangers formula, with monsters of the week, stereotypical characters and some action thrown into the mix. It's also you know the gay cause of who I am. <<less

'...And it was believed Dragons came from fairy tales... who knew that they actually came from the sky and beyond our atmosphere?.... Alex Crawford is an average guy, average life, beautiful fiancée, starting an average day but he's targeted and kidnapped for some sort of experimental warfare programme involving Dragons. Next thing that Alex knows he or rather, she wakes up essentially in a prison, initially struggles to come to terms with her new body, which also subsequently has a condition that if kept unsupported will result in her death. Will her attempts to escape and gain her old life back succeed? Will she even want it back in the end? Time will tell as... more>> Alex, becomes a 'heroin' suppose you could say, that she never really planned on being. Things get rougher for her as the story continues, will she survive?...'

An action/adventure type story, with a bit of saucy romance to come later on. This picks up from exactly where my other story, 'The Shard', left off, which is a short prelude to this one, introducing a few of the main characters and their back stories, you may want to read that first to get acquainted.

(Side note: I use song titles as chapter titles (With the artist in brackets at the footnote of the chapter). These are either meant to represent the mood of the chapter or usually the song at one point or another has got me through some tough times and means a lot to me. SO... as a little disclaimer, I do not own the rights to any of these tracks, merely showing my love for them.) <<less

After a heavily homebrewed Pathfinder 1 game session ends, Carl and two of his friends make a careless wish that comes true....... more>>

First time author here, no idea what I'm doing, and just doing this to scratch an itch. Do not expect a consistent schedule. <<less

A young closeted trans girl struggling with dysphoria in her life; Luna, or as she's known to others, Leo desperately wishes upon a star like... more>> in the stories to become the girl she always knew she was supposed to be. Little did she know her wish would be granted, and what that would entail. <<less

It is the Virtual 2040's. Our protagonist wakes up face-down in the sands of the Shores of Awakening - a starter area of their favorite VRMMO, Another World Online: Mundane Phantasy Historia - as avatar Deedee Yeowoo, a foxgirl healer. Something's wrong - she can't log out, and as part of the lategame raiding guild, Dungeon-Crawling And Chill, shouldn't be at first level. Moreover, she's not alone - at least some of her friends in the guild, as well as the wide-eyed newbie streamer Ace Striker, are along for the ride. ... more>>

How can they survive such an adventure friendly - which is to say, violent and monster-filled - world? Why are they here? And why does this avatar feel more comfortable to Deedee Yeowoo's player than her real life body ever did?

Volume 1 of a queer cyberpunk MMO isekai story about a gamer just realizing they're transgender.

I/O is by Talia Belser and the Other Worlds Tourism Bureau, made available under a Creative Commons 4.0 BY-SA-NC license. Cover image by Quantum Vaudeville (https://quantumvaudeville.tumblr.com/commission).

Now available as an ebook on itch.io! https://taliaellib.itch.io/vol1rebornontheshoresofawakening

The sequel, "Isekai/Online Volume 2: Out-Of-Bounds Interactions" is now live on Scribblehub! <<less

I woke up in a house with no memory of how I got there and in a body that isn't mine. The last thing I remember was being unable to cry as I tried to sleep.... more>>

A boy and a girl wake up in each other's bodies and neither wants to go back. This is how they learn to deal with each other's families and take care of each other through the large changes they are going through. <<less

Alex, a mage going through university, is pretty adept at making potions. When, one day, his friend Emily asks him to make a "True Form"... more>> potions for a friend, Alex accepts the challenge and ends up changing the lives of many people for the better.
And maybe, just maybe, he might end up learning something about himself along the way. <<less

Illyxa (a goblin) and her cousin Gragya (a gorc - goblin/orc) are two adventurers hoping to make a quick buck. Their latest mission involves helping... more>> a pair of elves get to the other end of the continent. The pay is good, but there’s a lot of secrets going on. The plan also start going sideways very quickly as a war breaks out.
Maybe they should ask for a raise… <<less

Working at a store that sells gender-swapping products is never simple or easy, especially when you're in the Returns and Complaints Department.... more>>

All art is made by my late friend, Aisaku. <<less

Summertime in their small sleepy town is pretty dull for twelve year old friends Eddie and Mickie, until a magical talisman starts trying to set... more>> some things right. The world begins to shift, but magic can be mysterious and maddening. Will it fizzle out before it's complete? <<less

The youngest child of the Kent family was a strange kid, for numerous reasons. For one thing, they were half-Kryptonian with developing superpowers. For another, they had Superman for a father. But the reason that the Man of Steel's youngest child felt strange wasn’t their unusual friends, educational circumstances, growing super strength or their family’s odd fashion choices. No, it was something deeper… Something personal, that the child was about to discover soon...... more>>

TW: Mentions and depiction of Gender Dysphoria

Current publication rate: Every two weeks

Cover and additional artwork by Marzennya
https://marzennya.tumblr.com/ <<less

Their idyllic youth shattered by the last great battle of the Sengoku Era, Mei had to learn to use the blessing they received from a Kitsune to navigate as both a man and a woman working in the highly gendered and regulated world of Edo’s ‘Pleasure District’, Yoshiwara.
They’d found something of a balance after a few years. Then they met her. A woman they can’t help but love. Yet love can be deadly for an Oiran.... more>>

[Sex Worker protagonist. Warning that not all their clients are ones they want to deal with… wasn’t sure how to tag that, but thought I should warn people.] <<less

It is the Virtual 2040's, and Deedee Yeowoo is still trapped in the milleu of Another World Online, Mundus. Having escaped the tutorial island, the Shores of Awakening, with her guildmates in free company Dungeon-Crawling And Chill, they found that there's a growing refugee camp of player characters outside of the port hub city of Viacruz, in numbers that would dwarf a Roman Legion.... more>>

With only the goodwill they earned from fighting for the Mundanes against a group of Player Character slavers, they need to survive in what's becoming a rapidly more expensive city as sellswords, without upsetting the people or the politics of the city too much - or earning the displeasure of her mayor, the Contessa Desolar.

Meanwhile, things about the situation aren't adding up, and the locals are rather more able to pass a Turing test than they were before the disaster that stranded a server full of minds on Mundus. And the answers to the questions Deedee's party are seeking about how the Translation happened might be found in the same place that the Contessa desperately needs a small group of Adventurers to investigate...

Volume 2 of a queer cyberpunk MMO isekai story about a gamer just realizing they're transgender.

I/O is by Talia Belser and the Other Worlds Tourism Bureau, made available under a Creative Commons 4.0 BY-SA-NC license <<less

When Davey found a door to another world in the mural on his bedroom wall, he thought he had a destiny and an adventure ahead... more>> of him. But maybe the portal was just malfunctioning. And maybe it could be useful despite that. <<less

When Maya signed up for her university's LGBT club, she hoped for a sense of community and belonging. A safe place to relate to others who share her experience. Instead, she finds a disheveled young man who asks a few too many questions and drags her into uncharted territory. Juggling transphobic co-workers, an old friend who has been acting strange, and a new guy who constantly keeps her on her toes, can Maya keep her head above water? Or will she crash and burn?... more>>

Also posted on Royal Road
Cover done by @SANSTpx on Twitter!
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Author's Note
The main characters in this story do not always behave like good people. They also do not speak for me or my views. I hope that's obvious to most people but I thought I would be safe. This account was always about me practicing writing more than anything, and creating and empathizing with flawed characters felt like a good step for growth. If transphobia, internalized or otherwise, is not something you want to read about, then this story may not be for you. I apologize if it dredges up any uncomfortable feelings in anyone, that was not my goal, I promise. Hopefully despite all of that, you enjoy reading my story! <<less

The things that go bump in the night aren't always that scary, as one person is about to find out. A girl who stares at the moon meets a stranger in the middle of the night, and her world changes forever. ... more>>

A short story. <<less

Two years ago, an unexplained, global phenomena started converting people all over the world into living works of art. Some remain human, while others are altered drastically. The world has been changed but life goes on...... more>>

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(Drawn In)
Kenny feels out of place in his family and the world, but an unassuming day at the mall will open his eyes.

Cover art is by Pixabay from Pexels (https://www.pexels.com/photo/sky-earth-galaxy-universe-2422) <<less

[Gender-Bender]
Before Yueguang dies he asks the Heavens that if they can grant him another life, please can I be reborn as a woman... The ones up in the heavens listened to him but during the process, someone fucked up somewhere and screwed him over.... more>>

"Is this what I get for asking the heavens to be reborn as a woman?" [Well so be it!!]

Waking up in a foreign world he takes each step carefully not overstepping the boundaries but hits hurdles and meets his master a Martial God.

With a rude character, strange experiences and a best friend that loves him, but disappears, he struggles at first but concurs them all and soon meets someone that makes him second guess his life.

This novel is also on Webnovel.com and Royalroad <<less