


Rep: bisexual trans woman MC, bisexual trans man MC The Craft of Love by E.E. Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Fascinating magic that fits beautifully into the time and place, an MC dealing with the death of her beloved, MCs coming together under traumatic and stressful circumstances Setting: the American West in the late 1800s

The bottom line: these are short queer romances with happy queer endings, and all of them are perfect for when the world is a dumpster fire and you just need to spend an hour immersed in a queer love story (and not stay up till 3am). Technically some of them might be novelettes, and a few might be very short novels, but who cares, this isn’t academia. These books range in length from 40ish to 150ish pages. Whether you’re looking for holiday stories, meet-cutes, vampires, shifters, chosen family, rock stars, friends-to-lovers, or historical shenanigans–these queer romance novellas have got it all. These stories range from 100% fluffy (we’re talking rainbow unicorns sprouting glitter from their horns, folks) to all-the-angst-that’s-fit-to-print-in-150-pages-or-less, and everything in between. But sometimes all I want is a simple dose of queer comfort, and there’s no better reading pick-me-up than queer romance novellas. When it comes to romance, I usually gravitate toward long, angsty novels with multiple side plots.
