Stories

Inappropriation

Dark HumourSocial Drama

Only-child Simone is fascinated by the world and its different people and cultures - why SHOULD she have to be limited to the path ordained for a privileged white girl from London? When she falls for a Sikh boy, she discovers his family doesn't like her for what she looks like and where she's from, so she does something about it. Thanks to the Gene Queens and their take-home kits, she can increase the melanin in her skin. The story of how the world handles her choices await you!

Statues were erected

Dark HumourSci-fi

G-Air is one of the rappers of the moment. He's so fly and hot that groupies throng to him and well, it's hard for an African brother who has made it big to say no to advances. Yasmin wants to win his heart - she's the solution to his loneliness - except he already has a fix from the Gene Queens, an idea so clever and profoundly good for him, they'll be making statues of him in the future.

Shes's not all ted talk

Crime

Gene Queen Co-Founder and Geneticist makes her way into a booby-trapped building in Sydney's industrial area. What is her mission? Who is her adversary? What threat to the way we live now in Australia is she up against? And why would the answers to all these questions make for a hell of a TED Talk?

Perpetual Life Enders Anonymous

Dark HumourCrime

Set the day before meeting Gene Queens co-founder Celestine de la Tour in London, Concepta O'Malley, middle child in a crime family of 15, shares with a crowd of fellow enders-of-other's-lives how she became the head of the scariest anti-genetic engineering army in the world...

The platonic law firm

Workplace comedyDark Humour

Rare is the opportunity for both Gene Queens co-founders Lilith and Celestine to be able to attend the same company launch. However, lawyer and feminist icon Vanessa Vermont is making a huge announcement for her all-female law firm. It's such big news that even Aunty Soledad, Celestine's business mentor, has made the trip from the UK. Will Vanessa finally be hiring men? Or is the news even more groundbreaking for womankind and indeed humanity?

The Six Leg Hunger

HorrorSpeculative fiction

Bug infestation in your home? Call PEST IN PEACE the insect removal firm run by Rick and Ahmad. How exactly are they so good at what they do? Why do they seem to love removing insects from your life? New employee JEUNESSE is about to find out.

Flesh Turtleneck

HorrorRelationshipsSci-fi

Ninette is great, realises Javi. She's Norwegian, beautiful, and she holds secrets. However, when he realises she won't ever take off her scarf, he knows their relationship can't move forward with secrets. Is he ready for the unusual secret that saved her life?

Heavy is the head that created the third room

Workplace comedy

When Lilith Cassidy set up Gene Queens with her true love Celestine, she expected them to innovate with genetic engineering. She did not anticipate how different the company bathroom designs would be...especially the 'third room'...

A Family Of Stevies

Sci-fiDrama

Celestine de la Tour is French and a geneticist, Lilith Cassidy, better known as Cass, is a foreign aid worker from Sydney. They fell for each other and are a new couple. Cass suggests a weekend away in Tasmania. During a sunrise walk on the beach overlooking the Tasman Sea, Celestine finds part of a whale skeleton, and the new couple decide to reassemble the skeleton together. This fateful morning, it turns out, is on the day the Gene Queens are born.

Every Unhappy Family is Frisky in its Own Way

ActionComedy

The Pizzini sextuplets. Each of them talented in a different field. Six incredible sisters…and then there’s sad little brother Emery. Sex and love addict. The object of his affection? Melisma. The sextuplet he lives with. During a family fashion show, he calls his SLAA sponsor and Gene Queen Threnody Cassidy to help him be not unhappy and not frisky.

The Little Ones Hurt

ActionComedy

Gene Queens co-founder Celestine de la Tour makes a trip to the Hague to meet a girl once the Polish daughter of addicts handed over to be educated in Japan at a terrifying school. That girl-now-woman, Elizaveta, has been convicted of a crime of international renown. How did she become the scariest lass in the world?

At Dinner, To Dinner, The CyGirl Comes

ActionComedy

Set after the events of the third installment of C-Girls’s Night Out in Sydney, this is the story of when Threnody Cassidy from Coogee, Sydney invited a Polish Girl from Japan to dinner at her family home to meet her mother. There is wine, bok choy, reminiscence, choy sum, and tentacle.

C-Girls’s Night Out in Sydney

ActionComedy

Threnody Cassidy was on a path to self-destruction until her arms were augmented into Swiss-army-knife-style cybernetic arms. Elizabetter Polanski has been more than 70% cyber-girl, or C-girl, for a long-time and has been apartment-bound since seeking asylum in Australia. This is what happens when Threnody takes Elizabetter out in Sydney’s Circular Quay for a girls’ night out.

The Living Dress Demo Day

ActionFantasy

Capturing a moment in the complex history between the original Gene Queens Celestine and Lilith, or Cass as we all called her after her last name ‘Cassidy’: when they were briefly separated, how did Celestine win her true love back? Well, she tried to change one of the most exploitative industries in the world by inventing something. Bye bye fast fashion. Hello living dresses.