One last #ShortStory to write about before I call it a weekend: this one is not my usual cup of tea, but it's oddness and strangeness appealed to me. It's beautiful.
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http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/arachnomorphosis/
I loved the format on this short story: I could see where it was going the whole time, but the step-by-step gave it an emotional punch it wouldn't have otherwise had. Recommended reading.
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https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-people-to-revise-you/#podcast
A story with a very cool format that imagines co-working as augmented by neural sharing. Definitely worth your time to check this out. Free click.
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This deceptively simple-seeming short story packs a strong emotional punch. It does so by implying the emotion and never showing it, making a truly strong story. Recommended reading. @ThomasHa #AmReadingScienceFiction #Dystopia #AuthorsOfMastodon #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon #Clarkesworld #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #AmReadingFiction
My headlong flight into reading has slowed somewhat. I'm now only reading three books at a time, earlier it was six if not seven or perhaps eight
What I was reading:
The Rainbow, DH Lawrence
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
The Eustace Diamonds, A Trollope
One More Day, Emma Heatherington
Small Mercies, Alex Walters
Best Summer Ever, Heidi Swain
Little Cottage on the Hill, Emma Davies
Love Letters at the Borrow a Bookshop, Kiley Dunbar
And I'm sure there was something else
Of course, I realise that spending all my time reading books or writing my own stories means I am escaping into an alternative reality, several alternative realities in parallel, which is a cop out, I know, but the present reality reflected in the media is just too awful
In the stories, I guess I am hoping to find the wormhole through which to escape or a portal from which help may be summoned
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For those of you going to WorldCon, my book will be on sale at the Liminal Fiction table. If you'd like me to sign a copy, I'll be at the table Thursday 2-3, Friday 12-1, and Friday 3-4.
https://www.limfic.com/book/the-day-we-said-goodbye-to-the-birds/
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And guess whose book is featured in the #SFWA New Release Newsletter this month?
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/17DR2lH3J6PEvO3I09sEqBM18kIAsO6ZM/view
Terrific story just out from friend and ex-Aurora Street critique group member @carolscheina.bsky.social. A bookstore visited by multiple versions of the protagonist who write notes to each other. A beautiful story flowed. Strongly recommended.
https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/02/15/all-these-inscriptions-are-for-me-by-carol-scheina
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In Ída Hennessy's "A Slightly Different Sunrise from Mercury, Nevada," Annie works as a "Canary" at the Nevada nuclear test site, at a time portal bringing tourists back to 1952. Multiple unexpected gut punches. Strongly recommended.
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/a-slightly-different-sunrise-from-mercury-nevada/
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More Codex2024 reading: Ída Hennessy's RoxysMakeupMoxy6 Gets Real" was very funny. A makeup tips influencer doing her last show before the apocalypse. Strongly recommended flash piece.
https://flashpointsf.com/2024/09/20/roxysmakeupmoxy6-gets-real/
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More Codex 2024 reading: "Eternity is Moments" by RP Sand traces the relationship between a woman and her grandfather with ecological themes as the backdrop. Strongly recommended.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219709480-asimov-s-science-fiction-september-october-2024
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"Belladonna" by Cressida Blake Roe operates on two levels. On the surface, a time-traveling botanist finds a young protégé with unique abilities. Deeper, it's a story about grooming and psychological abuse of girls. Gritty horror. Strongly recommended.
https://houseofgamut.com/gamut-magazine/belladonna/
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More reading of Codexian 2024 output: Andrea Goyan's "All My Mother Is" is a touching portrait of a mother-daughter relationship in the face of dementia. The fantasy tropes worked well with the material. Strongly recommended.
https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/all-my-mother-is/
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Fiona Moore's "What Happened at The Pony Club" has a cool premise--Y2K knocked out all computers worldwide and the world reverts to depending on smart people. Cool characters--girls at a private high school for these "computers." Cool format--an FBI case file.
https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-22/
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More Codex 2024 reading, this one from my friend and critique partner Sam Pisciotta. In "House of the Hidden Moon," two worlds bump up against each other. In one, an alcoholic mother has died and left the house to her son. In a second, a ghost and fairies stand in for a family that might have been. It's sad and disturbing, yet beautiful. Strongly recommended.
https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/house-of-the-hidden-moon/
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In "When the Cattle Gun Touches Her Forehead" by Ben Serna-Grey, trillionaires get the Nobel while a father slaves on a tower to reduce atmospheric CO2 and his wife submits to in utero genetic engineering to make the baby eat plastic. Satiric treatment of eco-fascism. Strongly recommended
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1N6MGDV
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Continuing with Codex 2024 short fiction catch-up, Angela Liu's "Before We Were Born" uses a near-future, cyberpunky conceit to examine tensions within a modern family. The twist at the end was terrific. Strongly recommended.
https://logicmag.io/issue-21-medicine-and-the-body/before-we-were-born/
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Cécile Cristofari's braided narrative, "Down the Waterfall," uses a time travel conceit to allow her protagonist to examine her life, live out fantasies, and find what is important to her. Very interesting. Strongly recommended.
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cristofari_01_24/
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