Hard Hat Required: Butch Stories

Hard Hat Required is a collection of six short stories, primarily speculative fiction, about the butch body—the myriad forms they can take, and the relationships we have with them. Stories include:

• Macs. Two butches with the same name can't help but compare themselves to one another. Contains explicit sexual content.
• It's Alive! A mad scientist conducts some special maintenance on her creation. Contains implied sexual content. CW: mild body horror.
• Diseased. A woman with a strange affliction goes in search of someone special. CW: Blood, violence, body horror.
• Hard Hat Required. A mech pilot on a Martian mining colony performs a daring rescue. Contains implied sexual content.

Praise for Hard Hat Required:

• "I liked it so much. I would eat it if I could." —World Fantasy Award-winning author Lauren Ring
• "Vital. Lifechanging. Wee bit sexy." —Emily Zhu 朱寶敬, designer of Beach Episode and Ten Thousand Days For the Sword
• "good fucking book" —my buddy Ezra