Welcome to Hi Strangeness.

A sad, sexy, spooky anthology of speculative fiction exploring the beautiful horrors of Black queer life.

My name is Kendrick Daye.
I was born in Coconut Grove, Florida.
I’m an artist, sure, but really I’m just someone who tells stories because not telling them feels like a slow kind of death.

I came to taking my writing seriously late. But these stories? They were always early. Knocking around in my head while I was trying to survive in a world that wasn’t built for someone like me. Back then I didn’t have the words for what I was feeling, just the feeling itself.

Hi Strangeness is what happened when I finally stopped pretending I could keep all of that inside. To quote one of my literary heroes, Octavia E. Butler: “You’ve got to make your own worlds. You’ve got to write yourself in.” This space is my attempt to do exactly that.

Here, I write toward the things that haunt me: existing as a Black queer person in a white, straight world. The quiet violences of everyday life. The dreaded realization that there is nothing wrong with the system. It’s working as intended, it’s just not working for you.

These are stories about the strange shapes reality takes when you live at the margins of it. Monsters and spectres appear, but they are rarely the largest problem. The problem is the world that produces them.

I plan to release weekly stories through this platform, often accompanied by audio versions.

Free subscribers get a story a week.
Paid subscribers get that and the messier stuff: the thinking, the doubts, the long works still bleeding on the page.

If you love sci-fi, horror, and speculative fiction that centers Black queer people, and you’ve got the means, I’d love to have you with us.

If you choose to join, you are appreciated.
If not, the signal remains open.