Love had made of me something invincible, and I was not interested in considering its consequences. 

I think I expected... more? On one hand, the anthology absolutely does what it says it does, exploring queerness through the use of monsters as metaphors. On the other hand, in many cases the balance was kind of off. Sometimes, I felt like the author really wanted to just write a horror story with queer characters without pulling the themes together. More often, I felt like the author wanted to write about queerness without necessary delving into all that horror-y monster stuff, but they probably wanted to be in the anthology, too. 

Overall, as it often happens with anthologies, this was a rather "hit or miss" experience for me. Two short stories really stood out for me. One was Wooly Bully by Amber Dawn, for its heavy summer vibes and my favorite brand of girlhood horror. The other was The Minotaur and Theseus (And Other Bullshit) by Ben Rawluk, because it's so liminal and weird, the myths and modern life blending together to the point it's unclear where allegory ends and actual events begin, and has so many great lines that cut to the bone. I can't recall any poems that hit me particularly hard, but I'm not too much of a poetry person, tbh!