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francisbordeleau.com

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Francis Bordeleau
ENIGMATA

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ENIGMATA follows Pat, Robin, and Charlie, three childhood best friends from Sandset now grown and separated. When Charlie goes missing and is presumed to have died by suicide, Pat and Robin’s friendship is reignited on the day of his funeral. Soon after, Pat and Robin begin having mysterious film-like dreams, where Charlie always shows up. As the dreams continue and Pat and Robin attempt to figure out what’s going on in their heads, tensions ramp up in the real world as the characters are confronted with the town’s conservative atmosphere. When all seems hopeless in both realities, Pat and Robin realize they may have a chance to save their friend.

The book explores the social isolation of queer people in small town America as its characters struggle to hold onto a reality that does not welcome them. It seeks to confront the distinction between reality, performance, and dream, finding them eventually interwoven and inseparable.

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Gabriel Joy Reid
OFFSIDES

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OFFSIDES is a young-adult webcomic and graphic novel in the genres of romantic comedy and coming-of-age. The story follows fifteen-year-old Alex Díaz, an effervescent goofball, and the underdog player of his new town’s boys’ soccer team. Practicing one field over on the premiere girls’ team is sixteen-year-old, Kamaria Jackson, the team’s serious-natured and slightly antisocial rising star player, who happens to be a trans girl. Despite being on two rivalrous teams, Alex and Kamaria’s friendship turns into an unlikely romance. The comic explores themes related to competition, developing healthy relationships, and breaking down the walls of gender segregation in sports.

I spent many of my formative years playing soccer on many different teams. Some were great experiences. Some not so much. I want to unpack these stories through the characters of OFFSIDES with a queer/trans lens, a story that I wish I had when I was a teenager. While the story focuses on a sport that is often depicted as rough, action-oriented, and even violent, I want to portray the same sport in a style that is soft, light, and nostalgic, a style that lends well to romance.

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sunnysheaportfolio.weebly.com

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Samantha Roberts
SEW IT SHALL BE

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Several lives are threaded together in Sew It Shall Be, a historical romance set in 1816 London with an alternative history twist: the arts are just as competitive as traditional sports.

Phoebe Lewis is an anxiety-ridden single mother living in the basement of her best friend’s dress shop. How her daughter Bridget came to be? A well-kept secret from the high society she once belonged to. All the wealthy of the ton know is that she was disowned from her prominent textile merchant family. Thankfully, she has Margaret just upstairs, and together, the two work as dressmakers. However, both women are looking for a patron— a wealthy noble or socialite willing to pay them for their work, assist in developing their talents, and bring them into the upper echelons.

Ulric Beaument wasn’t supposed to become the Duke of Brispool, but after his older brother’s passing two years prior, he is forced to go from leisurely recluse to perfect noble. His father is breathing down his neck. He still isn’t married at 29 years old. He hasn’t picked an artist yet. Worst of all, his aloof and reserved persona prevents real relationships. As a result, his reputation is dangling by a threat, and he is desperate to prove himself just as capable of his war hero brother. It’s hard to do that when every artist and noble is just so desperate and annoying.

At the 1816 Spring Formal Runway, these two desperate souls find each other by total accident. What they don’t know is that their business partnership is soon woven into a partnership of another kind. That is, it will if Phoebe can impress Ulric in just one year.

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@imgeorgezachary

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George Zachary (Zijian Guo)
FLOWERS IN THE RAINY NIGHT

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Flowers in the Rainy Night is a detective novel and a portrait of the process of Taiwanese identity. Everything begins when Japanese detective Saigou Kazuya takes a case. He needs to go to Taiwan to find a missing singer called Kikuko, who is the daughter of the leader of a tribe of Taiwanese Indigenous people. On the journey to finding Kikuko, Kazuya gets to know the hidden scars of two generations of Taiwanese and how they wrote down the history with joys and sorrows of this island.

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