Short stories
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Photo by Courtney Baucom on Unsplash This year, I tried to shift my focus from novels to short stories and journal about them, with mixed results. I read more short stories, but fell off of the journaling. I found it was slowing me down, and if my journal wasn’t handy, I would put…
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The World Outside is Elad Haber’s debut collection of twenty-one short stories. There is a wide variety to this collection including fairy tale retellings, post-apocalyptic science fiction, and stories about grief. It’s hard to find one overarching theme that binds the stories together, but if I were pressed to pick one, it would be the…
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Craft is unlike any other short story collection I have read. At times, it felt less like an anthology of tales, than a continuous narrative. This is because of “the writer”, an unnamed character at the centre of it all who happens upon the devil at a party in her twenties and sleeps with him.…
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Original review written Oct. 25, 2014 on Goodreads Original review (with updated comments) I picked up this little anthology at ConBravo this past summer as a way to support several authors and get a taste of their writing without breaking my bank account. As the title, “Spirits of Suburbia” suggests, the stories deal with fantasy…
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Original Review Published: July 26, 2016 on Goodreads. As the title reveals, the stories in this volume are meant to be chilling. Several of them are horror tales, such as “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown” and the eponymous “Poison Eaters”, but others are more about “strange happenings” like “Paper Cuts Scissors” which is about a…
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Title: Nothing But the Willows Author: J. D. Buffington This is my second time reading and reviewing J. D. Buffington’s work. Previously, I read and enjoyed his take on the Medusa myth: Come Hither, No Malice (Review here). So, when he was looking for people to review his short story collection, I happily volunteered,…
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Title: Glass Stories Author: Ivy Grimes When white light is passed through a glass prism, it refracts into a rainbow of colours. Similarly, the seventeen tales in Ivy Grimes’ Glass Stories are all bound together by the common theme of “glass”, but each one is a unique shade. Glass objects are at the heart of…
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My most recent short story sale is a unique one. A little while ago, Air and Nothingness Press, a publication I have worked with before, put out an unusual call. Short fiction comprised of a really long title (250+ words) with a short narrative (250-800 words) and rounded out with lengthy marginalia (250-800 words), with…
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Before you read today’s short story reflection post, you should read Ursula K. Leguin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and Isabel J. Kim’s “Why Don’t we Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole?” as this post has heavy spoilers for both. Plus both are brilliant. Short Story Reflections: Omelas Sometimes a…
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Hello and welcome to the end of 2023. I, for one, am happy to see it go. It’s been a complicated year in both my personal and professional lives. The biggest change for me is that I have left my second job (by choice), and while I’ll still be working full time, I won’t be…