Over two dozen writers from North Carolina or with deep ties to the Tarheel State band together to raise money for LGBTQ charities in Charlotte and North Carolina as a response to the NC General Assembly's passage of HB2, the "bathroom bill."

We are not discrimination. We are not hate. We are not fear. We are not oppression. We Are Not This.

Table of Contents

TL;DR - by Michael G. Williams Trapped - by Theresa Glover The Slave Trader's Wedding - by AJ Hartley In the Pasture - by David Childers The Gem of Acitus - by Jay Requard The Map of the Way - by Kay McSpadden For Small Creatures Such as We - by Jennifer Julian Behind the Canvas - by Caryn Sutorus Hair Shirt Drag - by Gordon White Another Way - by S.H. Roddey Ebony - by Andrea Judy A Rose, A Dragon - by T. Frock One-Up-One-Down - by Jake Bible Out of the Shadows - by Darin Kennedy The Seventh Sunrise - by James P. McDonald The Butcher's Witch - by Stuart Jaffe Headstrong - by Nicole Givens Kurtz

Buttons - by Gail Z. Martin A Dear, Lovely Thing - by Natania Barron Scorpio Rising - by C.R.R. Lavene The Color of Love - by Tamsin Silver Our Lady of the Flowers Saved My Life - by Charlotte Henley Babb Threshold Sanctuary - by Erin Penn God Don't Like Ugly - by Tonia Brown My Name - by Calandra Usher The Soldier Who Swung at the End of a Thread - by M. David Blake Inverted Perception - by Faith Naff Missing Muse - by Melissa McArthur Bog - by Trevor Curtis Lovebite - by Jason Gilbert The Dark Lady - by Lucy Blue Rallying for Regular Lives - by Joanne Spataro

Proceeds from the sale of this anthology will go to support LGBTQ charities and non-profits in North Carolina.