You Don’t Even Have a Rabbit is a collection of 30 funny, sex-positive pieces of speculative fiction with a feminist sensibility. These stories explore how humans navigate gender, sexuality, friendship, and their own happiness in potential earth futures. 

Six stories focus on Mairzy and Snith, a couple who meet in Remedial Kissing class, have sexcapades, and end up saving the world. Three imagine origins for playground folklore such as the hand-clapping rhyme Miss Mary Mack, the jump rope rhyme Cinderella Dressed in Yella, and the counting out rhyme My Mother and Your Mother. In others, a denizen of a jellyfish-shaped planet reaches out to Earth; two sprites who are jerks join forces; a group of girls learn maybe a little too much about Yggdrasil, the World Tree; a man tries to find happiness in a patriarchal, heteronormative society where all men are provided with four wives whether they like it or not; two girls attempt to play a trick on an old woman and are tricked in turn; a grown-up Fern provides backstory for Charlotte’s Web; a teenage boy yearns for power at a swords-and-sorcery amusement park; hormonal controls at a middle school break down and two students fumble their way toward social upheaval; a woman pretends to be a time-traveler to get rid of a mansplaining boyfriend; and a luxury dentist invents a device to wreak havoc on the rich. 

Bite-size literary palate-cleansers between the stories encourage readers to keep turning the pages.

“Jessy Randall has a poet’s imagination and a storyteller’s wickedness.”—Charlie Jane Anders

Table of Contents

You Don’t Even Have a Rabbit (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet)
           Helmets of the Future (Strange Horizons)
Alphabet Island (Flurb)
           The Light Market and the Language Market (Kaleidotrope)
Out of String (Eclectica)
           Fruits of the Future
Jellyfish Planet
           Luxury Vacations of the Future
My Mother and Your Mother (Eclectica)
            Mental Health Questionnaire
The Humanoscope (LQQK)
           Pay-Per-View Channels of the Future (McSweeney’s)
Remedial Kissing Class (LCRW)
            A Valentine of the Future (1)
The Baby Downstairs (Theaker’s)
           Complaints of the Future
Bread and Butter
             Folk Remedies of the Future (LCRW)
Orpheus and Eurydice, New York, 1989
            Elective Surgeries of the Future
How Many Doctors Did It Take (Front Range Review)
            When All the Books Are Gone (Rattle)
Story Time for Forest Troop Glink (Things You Can Create)
            Toys of the Future (LQQK)
Electrobeasts City
             Emotional Help Desk Open Tickets
Unt Not Invent System (Opium)
             They Measure Time Here
The Hedon-Ex Anomaly (LCRW)
            Insults of the Future
If I Could Travel in Time by Kel 5755 (Nature,  Spektrum)
             Pets of the Future
The Night of Red Butterflies (Theaker’s)
            Voting Rules of the Future
Cassini’s Mini-Packets Home (Strange Horizons)
            Fashions of the Future
The Three
            In the Future We’ll Have Long Necks (Escape into Life)
Anonymized Orgies, Inc. (LCRW)
            Contractual Relationship Options of the Future
The Loop (Just Like a Girl)
            Breathing Assessment
The Most Amazing Thing Has Happened (Space Squid)
            The Most Beautiful Sound in the World (Section 8)
Project Sexway (Jellyfish)
            A Valentine of the Future (2)
You Get What You Pay For
            Exercise Classes of the Future
Maybe a Witch Lives There (Mythic Delirium)
            Voices from the Past (Escape into Life)
The Lollyball Problem (Escape into Life)
           The Craters They Cause (Escape into Life)
Fern at Fifty-Seven (Escape into Life)
            Infinity Mirror
Voldor Souvenir Shop
           Robot with Writer’s Block
The Lump (Escape into Life)
           Embarrassments of the Future
Mairzy and Snith Solve the Energy Crisis (Amazing Stories)