Weird Dream Society: An Anthology in Support of RAICES Edited by Julie C. Day With stories by: Nathan Ballingrud, Carina Bissett, Gregory Norman Bossert, Karen Bovenmyer, Christopher Brown, Emily Cataneo, Julie C. Day, Michael J Deluca, Gemma Files, A.T. Greenblatt,… Read More ›
Short Story Collections
All Souls, All Warnings – a Review of THREE MESSAGES AND A WARNING edited by Eduardo Jimenez Mayo, Chris Brown, and Bruce Sterling
A member of the family passed away on All Souls, November 1. As a resident of San Antonio, TX, I am very familiar with the importance of this day. It is the day when spirits return to visit their living… Read More ›
Review of Resist: Tales of a Future Worth Fighting Against, edited by Gary Whitta, Christie Yant & Hugh Howey (2018)
The subtitle above confused me at first; it sounded as if one should fight against the worthwhile future. But the editors clarify the collection’s rough theme in their Introduction: the authors “sing about a future that may be dire, but… Read More ›
Remembering the Classics: BURNING CHROME by William Gibson
When I spent a couple months in Vancouver one summer, while writing and dogsitting and housesitting for a relative that was vacationing in Italy in this beautiful house in Vancouver, I walked around the city constantly wondering if I might… Read More ›
The Bible, Star Wars, and Kameron Hurley’s Meet Me in the Future
This is one of the best anthologies I’ve read this year.
Currently Listening: Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
You might want to skim “Every Song Must End” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam and queue up a playlist on Spotify or Amazon Music or whatever your preference is before you read this story. I did just that, hit play, and… Read More ›
Review: A Giant’s Heart by Eliza Langhans from Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39
I have been a long-time subscriber to Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, from Small Beer Press, and I have even been fortunate enough to appear in these fine pages on a couple occasions. I find the publication intoxicating. I… Read More ›
Revisiting the Old and Nearly (but not quite!) Forgotten – Jennifer Pelland’s UNWELCOME BODIES
There’s this thing that happens in books, wherein after about three or six months, they’ve been out enough that no one really looks at them or takes them seriously anymore, for the most part. Books have a short shelf-life in… Read More ›
When Someone Shares Their Experience, Believe Them: Bonnie Chau’s “All Roads Lead to Blood”
At one point while reading Bonnie Chau’s All Roads Lead to Blood I literally asked myself, am I the right person to review this book? And then I thought, I can focus on it solely as an example of amazing… Read More ›