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Recent Reviews
- The Four Profound Weaves • 2020 • Fantasy novella by R.B. Lemberg 16. Apr 2021
- The Pill • 2020 • Dystopian novelette by Meg Elison 15. Apr 2021
- Stepsister • 2020 • Fairy tale novelette by Leah Cypess 14. Apr 2021
- 2021 Hugo Award Finalists 13. Apr 2021
- The Prestige • 1995 • SF Fantasy Horror novel by Christopher Priest 12. Apr 2021
Category Archives: Story
The Four Profound Weaves • 2020 • Fantasy novella by R.B. Lemberg
The Four Profound Weaves. A carpet of wind, a carpet of sand, a carpet of song, and a carpet of bones. Change, wanderlust, hope, and death. Synopsis: The Four Profound Weaves follows a nameless man and Uiziya, two 63 years … Continue reading
The Pill • 2020 • Dystopian novelette by Meg Elison
I hope you don’t mind me calling the protagonists in this story “fat” instead of some cultivated term paraphrasing extreme forms of obesity. One, I’m a German guy culturally tending towards direct aggressive terminology. Two, the main protagonists thinks of … Continue reading
Stepsister • 2020 • Fairy tale novelette by Leah Cypess
Synopsis: The story follows Garrin’s perspective of what happens five years after Cinderella’s wedding. Garrin is the half-brother and best friend of prince Charming, now King Ciar. Both fear and love drive Garrin to be absolutely loyal to Ciar, although … Continue reading
Shadow Prisons • 2020 • Dystopian novelette by Caroline M. Yoachim
Synopsis: In a dystopian future, a harsher form of the Chinese social credit system is implemented. The reader witnesses the system becoming deployed with the help of glasses and implants for augmented reality. They make the whole world look pretty … Continue reading
Tower of Mud and Straw • 2020 • Gaslamp Fantasy novella by Yaroslav Barsukov
Synopsis: Former minister of internal affairs Shea Ashcroft was banned from the capitol to see to the completion of an anti-airship tower just at the border to the nation of Duma. The paranoid duke doesn’t like to have someone placed … Continue reading
Two Truths and a Lie • 2020 • Horror novelette by Sarah Pinsker
Synopsis: Stella is in her 40s. She helps an old high-school friend cleaning out his late brother’s house. She’s only there for one day but that turns out horrific in several ways. First, the brother was a compulsive hoarder with … Continue reading
Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super • 2020 • Superhero novelette by A.T. Greenblatt
First sentence: Watch Sam burn. Or sort of burn. Well, more like light up, then burn. But only his head. Synopsis: Sam has a weak power which he barely can control. A video of his spontaneous combustion went viral, cost him … Continue reading
My Country Is a Ghost • 2020 • Ghost short story by Eugenia Triantafyllou
Synopsis: Ghosts in this magical reality are able to follow their families. When Niovi immigrated grom Greece to another country, the border security catched her trying to smuggle her mother’s ghost across the border which isn’t allowed. Integrating into the … Continue reading
Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math • 2020 • Fantasy flash fiction by Aimee Picchi
Synopsis: Penny is a girl dreaming of escaping her life through a magical portal, just like in Narnia. She experiments different ways but it doesn’t come to fruition. She fights her everyday battles and turns to a normal life. Each … Continue reading
Open House on Haunted Hill • 2020 • Ghost short story by John Wiswell
First sentence: 133 Poisonwood Avenue would be stronger if it was a killer house. Synopsis: 133 Poisonwood is a haunted house which desperately wants to host a family again. Show-off houses like those famous killer houses would be cooler and … Continue reading
