The Outcast Hours, a collection of short fiction from brilliant editors Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin, is all about the night. And just like the night, the stories that populate it are frequently unsettling, and full of not-very-nice people. But it’s also full of freedoms—people (and not necessarily people) finding spaces beyond the ordinary in […]
Late again, but I blame December. It’s always an intense month. Not to mention 2016’s last few kicks in the teeth. I would have integrated December’s list into this one for efficiency, but then we would have been here forever. Read on below the cut for my micro-reviews of the short fiction I read in November. […]
My brain last month has been a dandelion clock, and every day is a gust of wind that scatters me on the breeze. Things I’ve been doing this month instead of writing this short fiction review post include: experimental cooking; laundry; day trips; playing Flight Rising; enduring computer meltdowns; installing Ubuntu; staring into space. But […]