Welcome to the season finale of #dkLa! Friends – the Pride Month Special that wraps up our very first year of stories, surprises, and long-form conversations with creative minds.
Today’s guest is Alex Kingsley — writer, game designer, playwright, and comedic weirdo of the highest caliber. In a year that’s taken us across timelines, genres, and unexpected friendships, this feels like the right kind of strange to end on.
Alex is the author of Empress of Dust, a sci-fi debut that blends queerness and world-building with poetic precision, published by Space Wizard Science Fantasy. They’re also the voice behind The Strange Garden and Other Weird Tales — a collection that asks what it means to be strange, to be human, and to laugh through the uncanny.
In this episode, we talk creative process, queerness in genre fiction, and what it means to tell the truth… through something that feels delightfully unreal.
🌀 Expect:
Awkward joys of being "too weird" for the mainstream
How fiction holds queerness, grief, and love in the same breath
A full-circle reflection on indie storytelling and year one of #dkLa! Friends
🎧 This one’s for the misfits, the dreamers, the genre-hopping believers.
Because the strange things often end up being the true things.
