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Bread is Life (flash horror fiction — queer lives saved by sentient matzah)

Valerie heard pounding on the door, but she had dough to knead. It had to rise. This bread would save them all.

3 min readAug 9, 2023

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Bread dough on a floured surface; rolling pin

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Elizabeth Andre
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My Favorite Wife, or Wedding Law is More Complicated Than You Think

Think you’re married? Think you’re single? Are you sure?

6 min readJun 7, 2023

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Cover of My Favorite Wife by Elizabeth Andre; three women of varying skin tones in wedding dresses.

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Elizabeth Andre

An essay about AIDS… Or maybe about COVID

The flashbacks started in March. Or maybe earlier. An infectious disease was emerging in December or January or February or 1983.

3 min readOct 25, 2020

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An essay about AIDS… Or maybe about COVID

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Elizabeth Andre

10 things I learned rewriting a 20-year old manuscript

1: If a detail doesn’t move the plot or develop a character, leave it out, no matter how beautiful and poignant it is.

4 min readAug 9, 2020

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Book cover, red ribbon in the palm of a hand. Title: Tested.

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Elizabeth Andre

Black lesbian (and bi, queer, trans, and non-binary) fiction authors you should know

There’s been some hand-wringing lately in the white lesbian literary community about racism in our midst. Stop wringing your hands. You’ll…

11 min readJul 27, 2020

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Black lesbian (and bi, queer, trans, and non-binary) fiction authors you should know

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Elizabeth Andre

Adipose Unleashed (flash fiction)

Journalist Nicola VanKing had to get this story. The development years ago of a procedure that removed excess adipose tissue and released…

2 min readJun 13, 2020

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Surgery. Surgical scissors in the foreground.

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Elizabeth Andre

How mask making saved this extroverted writer

There was a meme making the rounds advising introverts to check on their extroverted friends during this time of social isolation because…

3 min readApr 19, 2020

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A couple dozen fabric masks

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Elizabeth Andre

Now, Writing is for Extroverts too

When my wife proposed writing a novel together last year, I was initially resistant but not for the most obvious reasons. I wasn’t worried…

4 min readApr 19, 2020

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#lesficforthepandemic, Wise Words from Lesfic Authors

At this time of social distancing, economic stress, health stress, fear, and anxiety, I decided to get together (virtually, of course)…

4 min readMar 31, 2020

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#lesficforthepandemic, Wise Words from Lesfic Authors

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5 tips for the lesbian accidental time traveller

Time travelling can be lots of fun, just ask H.G. Wells, but such journeys have special challenges for lesbians. Laws and attitudes have…

3 min readMar 28, 2020

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Elizabeth Andre

Elizabeth Andre

writes LGBT supernatural suspense, romance, science fiction and young adult stories. She is a lesbian in an interracial same-sex marriage living in the Midwest.

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