White women LOL by Curtis Sittenfeld
Read it online at The Oprah Magazine A short story showing that racism is a whole lot more complicated than your...
7 January 2020
A series of steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
2018 Hugo Award Finalist – Best Novelette Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine #124, January 2017 I really enjoyed this novelette/short story,...
24 June 2018
The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island by Julianna Baggott
In “The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island,” a programmer finds himself working for the self-proclaimed “Bad-Boy of Virtual-Reality Therapy.” While his...
25 January 2017
The Moment by Lawrence M. Schoen
In 2010 “The Moment” was nominated for the Hugo Award in the Best Short Story category. Over the course of millions...
25 January 2017
The Glad Hosts by Rebecca Campbell
Read the short story online at Lackington’s and then the discussion on metafilter. Mai is a colonist on Shanti, entranced with...
3 August 2015
How to become a robot in 12 easy steps by A. Merc Rustad
via LadyBusiness where I seem to be getting all my short story recs recently Tesla is in love with a robot....
30 January 2015
Daughter of Necessity by Marie Brennan
Available to read online at Tor.com via Bookgazing on LadyBusiness In The Odyssey Penelope is the wife of Odysseus. While he...
18 January 2015
The Grinnell Method by Molly Gloss
Published – Strange Horizons, Sept 2012. Available to read online here. In 1943 ornithologist Barbara Kenney comes to observe the plovers....
22 July 2014
Selkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar
Read online at Strange Horizons Our unnamed narrator is a teenage girl, working in a restaurant after her mother left, trying...
27 June 2014
Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon
I’m terrible at reading magazines I have discovered. I have a subscription to Apex and I don’t think I’ve read more...
11 February 2014
Always the Same. Till it is Not. by Cecil Castellucci
One of my RIP reads Short story published in Apex Magazine Issue 41 Zombies are everywhere lately. This short story does...
22 October 2012
Heartless by Holly Black
Read free online at Lightspeed. On a battlefield a young girl is scavenging among the bodies. She and the other camp...
21 October 2012
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