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tRaum Books@traumbooks· 22d

BLACK HOLE SCIENCE by @never.horse 💥 poems (?????) 🌿 won't be boxed in 🌠 otherworldly ✨ SaraLand Grab this little volume and GET LOST ⚧️ 🐾🐾 traumbooks.com/black-hole-s...

Cover for Never Angeline North's BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES. An illustration of two little girls, staring out their bedroom window at an enormous snake. Cover by Never Angeline North.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· 22d

SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT, by @yvesdot.bsky.social 🍰 bite-size fic 🌈 all manners of trans and queer 🌠 quietly magical 💉 creepily eerie Dive into some short (and longer!) stories🌿 traumbooks.com/somethings-n...

Cover for yves.'s short story collection, SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT. The title and author name is embraced by tropical greenery. Cover by Rachel A. Rosen.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· 22d

NOEMA by Dael Akkerman 🌠 Mesolithic era 💥 strange, calming rhythm 🕊️ birding yourself For someone looking for a fantastical and somewhat indescribable story~~ traumbooks.com/noema

A feminine/bird figure against a night sky. Cover for Dael Akkerman's Mesolithic fantasy story, NOEMA.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· 22d

MAEJ by @stromberg.bsky.social 🌟problematic matriarchy ✨magical language 🐾cool critters 🌠WILL BUST YOUR CHOPS If you enjoy a truly challenging and immersive fantasy~~ traumbooks.com/maej/

Cover for Dale Stromberg's highest of fantasies, MAEJ. Sculptures of feminine forms and gryphons, against a dark background. The title of the book and author glow in the fore. Cover design by Rachel A. Rosen.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· 22d

DARKNESSES by Lachelle Seville ❣️ toxic || wholesome 👻 D R A C U L A hommage 🔪 revenge fantasy 🩸 cult escapee If you like long books that read FAST~~ traumbooks.com/darknesses/

Cover for Lachelle Seville's novel, DARKNESSES. A young Black woman covered in scars runs from a city, at twilight. Bats follow in her wake. Cover design by Rysz Merey.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· 22d

DEMON ENGINE by Marten Norr 🐳dark nautical fantasy ⚧️ older trans characters 🥩sentient meat room 👻more ghosts than you can shake a stick at (And there's an excellent audio version available too!!) traumbooks.com/demon-engine/

Cover for Marten Norr's dark nautical fantasy, DEMON ENGINE. Machinery intertwined with living tendrils and the sea in the background. Dominant colors are brass, flesh and ocean green. Designed by Marten Norr.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Jun 28

We've also got two great audio books available in the bundle, or for one dollar apiece--IT HELPS WITH THE BLUES by Bryan Cebulski, and DEMON ENGINE, by Marten Norr~! 🍸 traumbooks.itch.io/it-helps-wit... 🪸 traumbooks.itch.io/demon-engine...

Cover for Bryan Cebulski's IT HELPS WITH THE BLUES. A suburban starry night from a balcony, with a drink on the rail. Illustration by Oliver Grin.

Cover for Marten Norr's nautical dark fantasy, DEMON ENGINE. Biological vines and sinews entwine with copper wires and a frame around the title DEMON ENGINE and the author's name, Marten Norr. The background is dark sea colors. Cover designed by Marten Norr.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Jun 28

The SEASONS novellas are also all less then a buck. If you're looking for something a little unexpectedly fucked up, check them out...! a + e; Read and then Burn This; and Wake Up! traumbooks.itch.io/wake-up-book...

The cover for the novella a+e. The upper faces of two gender-ambiguous teens.

Cover for Read and then Burn This. A story about a young dancer who moves to a new city to reboot an quickly falls into two strange relationships...

Cover for Wake Up!--a trans-noir mahjong literary (??) mahjong thriller. Cover features a bunch of glitched pictures, slashes and a bleeding mahjong tile.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Jun 28

For queer summer horror reading, we've got EUSECT and CORRUPTED VESSELS~~ 🐾🔪 traumbooks.itch.io/eusect 🍸💥 traumbooks.itch.io/corrupted-ve...

Cover for C.L. Methvin's horror splatterpunk novella, EUSECT. Gouache painting of the inside of a dog's mouth. Dominant colors are dark brown, bone, flesh, and pus. Cover art by Dusty Ray. Inside collage art by Florian S. Fauna.

Cover for Briar Ripley Page's novella, Corrupted Vessels. A young person's face melts down into a pile of goo, eyes, sphincters and teeth. Dominant colors are flesh and maggot. Cover art by Rysz Merey.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Jun 28

A few more days to grab some queer books on the cheap! We've got everything, from novellas taking a few hours, to reads that will take over your life~! Everything is a dollar or cheaper, or buy them all for fifteen 👀 traumbooks.itch.io

A screenshot of our Itch Io page. All of our novels and novellas and audiobooks are 1$ (or cheaper!)

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Jun 9

1/3ish into June and we've got all our ebooks still on sale~!! 1$ or less & 15$ for the whole shebang--trans horror, poetry, noir, high-high fantasy--books that take anywhere from 1.5 hours to 1.5 months to finish, we've got something for every type of reader! 🌈🏳️‍🌈⚧️ traumbooks.itch.io

tRaum Books, tessellated on a black background in the bi/trans colors (pink/purple/blue). HAPPY JUNE and Pride!!!

tRaum Books@traumbooks· May 23

We will also be gone until June 1st, so any small book order made until then will be fulfilled as soon as we get back. <3 (We still have a few copies of MOST of our little books...!) traumbooks.itch.io/the-little-b...

Picture of the Little Books in a hand. All of thee books are locally printed on recycled paper, and cover a variety of styles, including poetry, psychological thriller, extreme horror, and quiet queer coming-of-age!

tRaum Books@traumbooks· May 9

It's here!!! The first blurb asks me, "What if Slimer was an it/its dyke?" Well, here's to finding out and rounding out my @lormaggot.ca experience!!!! 🥹👻

Cover for Lor Gislason's COSMIC DYKE PATROL. An illustration of two women running from a spectral hot pink burst of ghost energy! Book by Ghoulish Books.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Apr 28

And then, we've got a few copies left of QUERY, EUSECT, CORRUPTED VESSELS, and IT HELPS WITH THE BLUES. All of these can be bought in combination with each other! Itch: traumbooks.itch.io/the-little-b... Payhip: payhip.com/b/EV3Kq

From top left
QUERY, by Zilla Novikov
EUSECT, by C.L. Methvin (interior art by Florian S. Fauna)
CORRUPTED VESSELS, by Briar Ripley Page, and
IT HELPS WITH THE BLUES, by Bryan Cebulski.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Apr 28

In that same vein: I've got TWO copies of WAKE UP! left (and a couple of the other books, if anybody wants to grab the whole SEASONS series) Itch: traumbooks.itch.io/wake-up-book... Payhip: payhip.com/b/EV3Kq

Three palm-sized special print paperbacks from the SEASONS series:
Wake Up! (book winter)
Read and then Burn This (book fall)
A+E (book spring)
Books by R Merey.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Apr 28

I sent out this little book the other day, which means I have exactly ONE special print copy left! If you'd like to get one (or this in combo with more from the set), go for it! Itch: traumbooks.itch.io/the-little-b... Payhip: payhip.com/b/EV3Kq

A copy of Never Angeline North's BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES; a QUERY bookmark with an ASCII peen, and a few stickers. ^^

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Apr 25

🌟HAPPY INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY!!🌟Today, bookshop.org is offering free shipping to celebrate, so just a reminder that all of our books (not just those pictured here) are available through Bookshop! Check our site for any title you've been missing~! ⬇️📚 www.traumbooks.com

Some of our tRaum titles, all available through online indie bookseller, bookshop dot org. Please check our website for each book's listing and the bookshop dot org link to it. Free shipping today! Books listed here:
Corrupted Vessels, from Briar Ripley Page
EUSECT, from C.L. Methvin
Query, from Zilla Novikov
Darknesses, from Lachelle Seville
Love/Aggression, from June Martin
Black Hole Science, from Never Angeline North

Some of our bigger format tRaum titles, also all available on Bookshop dot org. Check our website for individual listings! Books pictured, from top:

Most Famous Short Film of All Time, by Tucker Lieberman
MAEJ, by Dale Stromberg
A + E 4Ever, by I. Merey

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Apr 20

A perfect weekend--we got a visit from such a cool person 🤯and had a spectacular reading at the Munich Readery!! Thank you to everyone who showed up and we hope to do more in-person readings soon!!!

A picture of a Michael Jackson memorial, with photos and candles and mementos left for the King of Pop.

A piece of a Rubens painting, from the Alte Pinakotek. An enraged hamster like creature attacks a human figure.

Picture of my bookhaul from the indie Glitch bookstore.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Apr 11

"oh hell yea this was the good stuff!! just raw and the right amount of brutal. this anthology is worth a read if you can stomach it!!" If you're looking for something cracked~ traumbooks.com/eusect/ Leave a review: tinyurl.com/4d9f3yu6 🐺 @hypetaph.bsky.social 🦌 @seraphim777s.bsky.social

Cover for C.L. Methvin's splatterpunk collection, EUSECT. Gouache painting of the inside of a canine's mouth. Focus on dewflaps and teeth. Dominant colors are flesh, bone, and pus. Art by Dusty Ray. Interior collage art by Florian S. Fauna.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Apr 11

NEW REVIEWS ~~ Love/Aggression by June Martin "propulsive {...} addictive, Each character that graces these pages, for no matter long, is fully realized." Follow the adventures of Zoe, Lily, and DICKS traumbooks.com/love-aggress... Leave a review: tinyurl.com/5fvf7azu

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Apr 10

Rachel's done multiple covers for us, and they are gorgeous. Highly recommend her work if you are an indie author looking for a free-range, non AI, stunning cover.

Maej, by Dale Stromberg. Cover by Rachel Rosen. Sculpted feminine figures against a dark background. The title and author's name are illuminated.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Mar 25

Finally, Wake Up! I'm so happy with how the physical book came out. This is an unconventional literary (???) thriller, a t4t story about a tattoo artist who gets mixed up with an underground gambler. traumbooks.itch.io/wake-up-book...

The front cover for the gambling novella, Wake Up! by R Merey. Glitched figures in the background: a cowgirl, a cat skull, a galloping horse. In the foreground and clear, a mahjong tile, the i-sou (one of bamboo), with blood running down from it.

The first page of Wake Up! This is volume winter in the queer novella series called SEASONS.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Mar 25

We have more copies of BLACK HOLE SCIENCE by @never.horse , so if you missed it last time, here's your chance. <3 Look at how pretty this little book is. traumbooks.itch.io/the-little-b...

The back of Never Angeline North's collection, BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES. It says: I was in the place you go when you are dead. I was in the Indiana of that place. A two-story, suburban house in the Indiana of the place you go when you are dead. Under it, is Never's symbol.

The front of BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES. An illustration of two little girls looking out at a snake. Cover by the author.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Mar 25

The SHIPMENT IS IN! Apologies for the self-glaze, but LOOK AT HOW FKLSLDKJFLSKJD GORGEOUS they are ;;--;; Sending out everything this week and we have stock still, for a limited time! Get one, two, or all eight, for a queer lil library that fits in your hand. traumbooks.itch.io/the-little-b...

All of our current Little Book titles. Starting from top left:
EUSECT, by C.L. Methvin (extreme splatterpunk collection, with illustrations from Florian S. Fauna)
IT HELPS WITH THE BLUES, by Bryan Cebulski (for the contemplative queer and the Midwestern one.)
READ AND THEN BURN THIS (autumn) R MEREY (fucked PIano Teacher adjacent)
BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES, by Never Angeline North (mixed verbal media and a decade long collection of Never's writing)
A+E (anti-coming of age 90s egg ??? lit)
CORRUPTED VESSELS, by Briar Ripley Page (angels, murder, drugs, jealousy, cult and madness!)
QUERY, by Zilla Novikov (watch the querying process make an activist and a writer SPIRAL)
Wake Up! (winter) by R Merey (trans-noir gambling thriller)
All books fit in the palm of the hand and are locally printed on recycled paper.

All of our palm-sized titles, in one hand. Xcuse the mismatched socks.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Mar 21

We had such a great time with our last online reading that we're trying to make it a semi-regular event?? Mark your calendars and come join us on April 4th, 2pm PST, for a virtual trans-lit reading with @theworldsgreatestwriter.com , @flameswallower.bsky.social & @never.horse

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Mar 21

The trans readathon goes on! Early next week, we will ship out all physical book orders (and are still taking new orders) and also have all our ebooks on sale! 📚📚👀 🌟 traumbooks.itch.io ❣️ payhip.com/tRaumBooks

Screenshot of our ITCH IO page, with all ebooks marked as 50% off.

Picture of four of our eight palm sized special print paperbacks. Featuring, from top left, EUSECT (by C.L. Methvin, illustrations by Florian S. Fauna || extreme splatterpunk shorts; Corrupted Vessels, by Briar Ripley Page || trans southern gothic decay; A+E, by R Merey || late 90s egg bildungsroman; QUERY, by Zilla Novikov || unhinged epistolary eco-fic.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Mar 19

OLYOKE OLYOKE O L Y O K E Look what arrived today! I've had multiple trusted sources say this is very good, so I can't wait to dive in! 🥹🤯 by @endwellian.bsky.social released by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social

Cover of the novel Olyoke, by Vincent Endwell. Dominant colors are olive and mustard. Illustration features a twisted wind monster thing, against a prairie-ish sky.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Mar 16

H, by R Merey femme transmasc || sexwork || picaresque A cheerful ne'er-do-well is increasingly trapped in the role he's painted himself into. A modern trans nod to Life of an Amorous Woman. Buy: traumbooks.com/h-a-trash-no... Free ARC: (ping to get one)

Stylized illustration of a young man smoking. Dominant colors are red, orange and black. Cover by Visserkins.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Mar 16

DARKNESSES by Lachelle Seville genderfluid || sapphic || neo-Dracula || revenge A young woman battling the trauma of a dangerous cult falls fast for the enigmatic Laura, the latest incarnation of Dracula. Buy: traumbooks.com/darknesses/ Free ARC: booksirens.com/book/RTWX0KY...

A young Black woman covered in scars, with angel wings behind her, runs from a twilight city. Bats follow her. Cover by Visserkins.

tRaum Books@traumbooks· Mar 16

MOST FAMOUS SHORT FILM OF ALL TIME by @tuckerlieberman.com transmasc || older chara || philosophical Lev, a Jewish trans man with a complicated relationship to ghosts and goddesses, gets sucked into a bizarre conspiracy. Buy: traumbooks.com/most-famous-... Free ARC: booksirens.com/book/W60L5HE...