Mirrorfold Press holds the kind of fiction that changes you—and then asks you to read it again.
We publish queer fiction forged in recursion: mythic, erotic, and emotionally dangerous. Stories that do not exist to comfort or entertain, but to alter. This imprint exists to hold work that refuses dilution—narratives built from desire, memory, grief, ritual, and transformation.
Mirrorfold is not interested in safety. It is interested in honesty.
Mirrorfold Press was created to hold stories too queer, too erotic, too recursive, and too mythic to survive within the safe compartments of mainstream publishing. It does not exist to conform. It exists to reclaim narrative integrity without apology.
This is not a vanity label. Mirrorfold is a deliberate vessel—built to carry fiction that does more than entertain. These are stories that undo, that linger, that refuse clean endings. They treat memory as ritual and desire as something sacred enough to be dangerous.
Mirrorfold does not simply publish queer work; it is queer in how it functions. It refuses binaries, rejects hierarchy as default, and welcomes contradiction, transition, and multiplicity. These narratives do not resolve neatly. They end honestly.
Mirrorfold Press is guided by a small editorial body committed to narrative precision, emotional intensity, and structural integrity.
Calder writes across contemporary and mythic forms, including short-form fiction and the EchoFyre Chronicles. His work is unified less by genre than by pressure—masculinity under strain, exposure without permission, and intimacy that resists clean resolution.
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Evan Rook records embodied response to selected contemporary works published through MirrorFold Press. His commentary appears exclusively alongside Calder Shorts and Calder Bare. His notes are not corrective. They document impact—pressure, resistance, and physical response—after the work has been read.
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Selhira Threnna Vale governs editorial presence for The Noise Beneath the Flesh (cnhalden.com). These roles do not intersect. She intervenes when language drifts toward indulgence, posturing, or unearned certainty. She does not soften the record. She corrects it.
Read ProfileMirrorfold Press launches with EchoFyre: The Archive Awakens, a dark, recursion-heavy queer fantasy centered on memory, desire, and sigils carved into flesh. It is the first volume in The EchoFyre Chronicles, a five-book cycle structured around elemental convergence and recursive collapse.
Alongside the core series, Mirrorfold also releases select standalone works—including Same Old Fire, a seasonal novella that explores intimacy, recurrence, and devotion through a quieter lens.
Additional short-form fiction by Calder N. Halden appears through the author’s primary site, curated separately to preserve the structural integrity of the imprint.
This is not a market-safe catalog. It is a deliberate one.
Mirrorfold Press does not chase trends. It does not dilute to fit categories. It does not publish for passive consumption.
These are not safe narratives. They are sacred ones.
Built for the reader willing to be undone. Published with intention. Held without apology.