Tag: short story collection
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SWORD STONE TABLE: OLD LEGENDS, NEW VOICES edited by Swapna Kirshna and Jenn Northington (BOOK REVIEW)
Synopsis: Here you’ll find the Lady of the Lake reimagined as an albino Ugandan sorceress and the Lady of Shalott as a wealthy, isolated woman in ... -
BEING ACE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF QUEER, TRANS, FEMME, AND DISABLED STORIES OF ASEXUAL LOVE AND CONNECTION edited by Madeline Dyer (BOOK REVIEW)
Synopsis: From a wheelchair user racing to save her kidnapped girlfriend and a little mermaid who loves her sisters more than suitors, to a slayer ... -
AN ORCHID IN MY BELLY BUTTON by Katy Wimhurst (COVER REVEAL)
Offbeat short stories that explore our fragile world These stories savour the surreal, flirt with magical realism, dabble with dystopia. A boy sees the ghosts of ... -
OUT OF THE WINDOW, INTO THE DARK by Marian Womack (BOOK REVIEW)
“Everyone knows information is sacred. People have died in its pursuit, by accidents or else killed.” “There are no more icebergs. They only exist in our ... -
DEAD LETTERS: EPISODES OF EPISTOLARY HORROR edited by Jacob Steven Mohr (BOOK REVIEW)
Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror What a year it’s been for anthologies. For years, I’ve read creepy short stories before bed. From MR James to ... -
ALPHALAND by Cristina Jurado, translated by James Womack, Sue Burke, Monica Louzon, Steve Redwood and Inés Galiano (BOOK REVIEW)
Cristina Jurado – Alphaland (2023, translated by James Womack, Sue Burke, Monica Louzon, Steve Redwood and Inés Galiano) “For him, light has always been something foreign ... -
EYES GUTS THROAT BONES by Moïra Fowley (BOOK REVIEW)
Moïra Fowley is the author of three critically acclaimed YA novels, and a part-time witch. She is half-Irish, half-French, and lives in Dublin. Moïra has a ... -
HIT PARADE OF TEARS by Izumi Suzuki (BOOK REVIEW)
Izumi Suzuki – Hit Parade of Tears (2023, translated by Sam Bett, David Boyd, Helen O’Horan and Daniel Joseph) “Hey, it’s pretty common these days. Some ... -
ANIMALS AT NIGHT by Naomi Booth (BOOK REVIEW)
“They’re getting drunk and reminiscing about their old lives, about gigs and parties and festivals on faraway beaches where they’d danced and played like animals at ... -
WALKING ON COWRIE SHELLS by Nana Nkweti (BOOK REVIEW)
“A Mami Wata’s essence is moonlight and desire melded to one. Nala knows this in her marrow, in her fins. Lasirèn, Yemanja, Oxum, Erzulie, Jine-Faro, Santa ...
