Thirteen ways of looking by Colum McCann
A novella, Thirteen ways of looking and short stories, What time is it now, where you are?, Sh’hkol, Treaty. Trigger warning...
9 June 2019
Carnival nine by Caroline M. Yoachim
Published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies ; Issue #225, May 11, 2017 This is a wonderful story. I actually don’t want to...
16 July 2018
Welcome to your authentic Indian experience by Rebecca Roanhorse
Published in Apex Magazine, August 2017 This is one of those short stories that I just didn’t gel with, I think...
15 July 2018
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
The Book of Apex : Vol 4
Part of the Apex Blog Tour hosted by The Little Red Reviewer The problem I always have with reviewing a collection...
25 February 2014
Apex blog tour – guest post by Ian Nichols
Welcome to my first part of the Apex Blog Tour, kindly organised by the Little Red Reviewer, celebrating The Book of...
10 February 2014
Bloodstones
A collection of horror stories, edited by Amanda Pillar. Part of my RIP VIII reading. Table of contents Introduction – Seanan...
16 September 2013
Galatea by Madeline Miller
Thanks to Andi’s review of The Song of Achilles I learned that Miller had a new short story out. So off...
23 August 2013
The Ballad of the Wayfaring Stranger and the Dead Man’s Whore by Sean Demory
via Metafilter Inspired by classic American murder ballads and folk songs such as In the pines and Knoxville Girl this tells...
13 July 2013
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
First published in serial form in the 1950s The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short stories that together tell the...
17 September 2012
Rappacini’s daughter [essay] by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This week’s essay for my Coursera Course got a 5. W00t :) Beatrice, Beatrice, let down your hair. Giovanni is not...
31 August 2012
Significant Dust by Margo Lanagan
Vanessa works in a roadhouse in an isolated part of Australia. When we first meet her we don’t know why exactly...
15 August 2012
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