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Our Witchless Flesh by Sapphire Lazuli
Forthcoming October 5, 2026! ISBN: 979-8-9991901-5-4
Our Witchless Flesh blends horror and romance in a visceral poem of feminine rage.
Inspired by the worlds of Blade Runner and BLAME!, Our Witchless Flesh imagines a fictional Adelaide, Australia as a city sinking under the deluge of a broken dam. Two young witches in a strange coven of steampunk magic whose spiritual dogma transforms from an escape to a terrible prison. At the same time, the city’s quietly sentient brutalist architecture expands, forgetting the people whom it once was built for and growing resentful of the body that was stolen from it. As water spills into Sunken Adelaide, the witches must decide what place they have in this world that despises them. All the while, an ancient entity, The Olde Mother, is rising from those spilling depths.
“[Our Witchless Flesh is] a masterfully executed work of feminist body horror that’s delightfully sinister. The language is playfully strange and reads like an oily deluge where meaning is slippery, shimmering, and alarmingly sticky.” —Paula D. Ashe, author of Shirley Jackson Award-winning and Bram Stoker Award-nominated collection We Are Here To Hurt Each Other
“A vast poem of twisted metal. Lazuli has crafted a rich engine of propulsive imagery, with each sensation burning into your brain.” —Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, The Worm and His Kings, and A Game in Yellow
“To read Our Witchless Flesh is to bathe in sumptuous, brutal prose. Sapphire Lazuli has crafted a story that is deeply weird and upsetting, emotionally resonant, and strangely sexy.” —Tiffany Michelle Brown, author of How Lovely To Be A Woman
“Sapphire Lazuli’s debut is a poetic experience that thrums inside the brain, driving readers forward into an oil-slicked nightmare. Riveting and oozing intrigue, this magnificently strange and cinematic world is a fierce artistic creation.” —Sara Tantlinger, author of To Be Devoured
Sapphire Lazuli (she/they) is an Australian trans woman of color writing weird, literary horror, and strange poetry that dissects the cruelties of having been left alive. When not writing fiction, her video essays and short films can be found on her YouTube channel, Sapphic Sapphire.
Forthcoming October 5, 2026! ISBN: 979-8-9991901-5-4
Our Witchless Flesh blends horror and romance in a visceral poem of feminine rage.
Inspired by the worlds of Blade Runner and BLAME!, Our Witchless Flesh imagines a fictional Adelaide, Australia as a city sinking under the deluge of a broken dam. Two young witches in a strange coven of steampunk magic whose spiritual dogma transforms from an escape to a terrible prison. At the same time, the city’s quietly sentient brutalist architecture expands, forgetting the people whom it once was built for and growing resentful of the body that was stolen from it. As water spills into Sunken Adelaide, the witches must decide what place they have in this world that despises them. All the while, an ancient entity, The Olde Mother, is rising from those spilling depths.
“[Our Witchless Flesh is] a masterfully executed work of feminist body horror that’s delightfully sinister. The language is playfully strange and reads like an oily deluge where meaning is slippery, shimmering, and alarmingly sticky.” —Paula D. Ashe, author of Shirley Jackson Award-winning and Bram Stoker Award-nominated collection We Are Here To Hurt Each Other
“A vast poem of twisted metal. Lazuli has crafted a rich engine of propulsive imagery, with each sensation burning into your brain.” —Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, The Worm and His Kings, and A Game in Yellow
“To read Our Witchless Flesh is to bathe in sumptuous, brutal prose. Sapphire Lazuli has crafted a story that is deeply weird and upsetting, emotionally resonant, and strangely sexy.” —Tiffany Michelle Brown, author of How Lovely To Be A Woman
“Sapphire Lazuli’s debut is a poetic experience that thrums inside the brain, driving readers forward into an oil-slicked nightmare. Riveting and oozing intrigue, this magnificently strange and cinematic world is a fierce artistic creation.” —Sara Tantlinger, author of To Be Devoured
Sapphire Lazuli (she/they) is an Australian trans woman of color writing weird, literary horror, and strange poetry that dissects the cruelties of having been left alive. When not writing fiction, her video essays and short films can be found on her YouTube channel, Sapphic Sapphire.