Shake Out the Ghosts

“A hallmark of Hess’s narratives is the grace with which the love story dovetails into the speculative weirdness, and Shake Out the Ghosts does this in spades. The depiction of PTSD is heartbreakingly real, the character work superb, and the romance queer AF. This one kept me up past my bedtime.”– Khan Wong, author of Down in the Sea of Angels“Al Hess’s voice is electric. It’s alive. It’s frantic in the best way, like a big broken water fountain shooting out gold.” – Champ Rockwell, reviewer and podcaster, on Yours, Celestially“At once harrowing and tender, heart-poundingly twisty and deeply compassionate.”– P. H. Low, Ignyte-, Locus-, and Rhysling-nominated author of These Deathless Shores

Al Hess is the author of the self-published post-apocalyptic Travelers series and the 1930s flavoured dystopian series, Hep Cats of Boise. When not hunched before a computer screen, Al can be found at his art desk. He does portraits in both pencil and oil paint, and loves drawing fellow authors’ characters nearly as much as his own. He writes cozy and uplifting stories with queer, trans, and neurodiverse representation.