Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies by Brooke Bolander (Grade 10+)

Trigger Warning: Strong Language, Mention of SA and Death.

In her short story, Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies, Brooke Bolander questions Western society's fixation on the perpetrators of rape and their stories by chronicalling how an intergalactic being responded to a mere mortal's attempt at assault. It's the vicim's turn to tell the story. Bolander combines trauma with a swashbuckling, fantastical, campy twist in this weird, wonderful and powerful piece.

A self described writer of "weird things of indeterminate genre", Bolander's work has been featured in magazines such as The Uncanny, Lightspeed, Tor.com and Strange Horizons, to name a few. She has been a repeat finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and Theodore Sturgeon awards and holds a degree from the University of Leicaster for both History and Archeology.