It’s somehow March 2017 already—time, as They Might Be Giants so accurately said, is marching on (and now I’m even older). But I just can’t quite let 2016 go until I’ve rounded up my most favourite short fiction published in it. So what follows is my favourite short fiction from 2016, with a link to the reviews […]
It’s January. I’m sitting on my sofa, swaddled in a blanket, fingers going white, watching the relentless news scroll by. I’m beginning to miss last year, when my news feed was only full of the deaths of beloved celebrities. This is my monthly collection of micro-reviews for all the short fiction, new and old, I […]
I’m going to take the more optimistic view of those available to me, and say that as I’m actually publishing this before the second half of September, it’s early for once! (The less optimistic version is that I was actually so late getting my junk together last month that I’ve had to amalgamate July and August into one […]
Both May and June have come and gone, and the time is long overdue for my short fiction roundup for the month of May—a collection of micro-reviews of all the short fiction I’ve read in the past month. What dark days we live in now. I remember May fondly: a time before I’d even registered to vote at my new […]
Legend has it that Socrates said: ‘the unexamined life isn’t worth living’. Taking this dubious aphorism to heart, as was ever my wont, this past December I decided that the new year would be a good time to finally start logging my reading. I’m going to further break down the demographics of everything I read in another post, for now here’s […]