Useless updates:
1) i wanna try to read short stories like ye olden days (read: a year ago), so i’ll probably try to read one story a day for all of december. I apologize, but you’re gonna read about it here
2) i learned a new word today: gavel
1) i wanna try to read short stories like ye olden days (read: a year ago), so i’ll probably try to read one story a day for all of december. I apologize, but you’re gonna read about it here
2) i learned a new word today: gavel
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🍊The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han🍊
by Maria Dong
~5k words
CW: Grief, illness, medical negligence, death
https://www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-frankly-impossible-weight-of-han/
by Maria Dong
~5k words
CW: Grief, illness, medical negligence, death
https://www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-frankly-impossible-weight-of-han/
khōréō
The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han
For Grant Rutherford, work is both life and legacy—but when he dies, what he leaves behind has metaphysical reverberations he could never have foreseen.
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🕷️I Wear My Spiders in Remembrance of Myself🕷️
by Kel Coleman
~4,6k words
CW: (under spoiler bc they are a central part of the story)a lot. None of them is too graphic and they range from racism to sexual assault, to homo and biphobia to toxic relationships. And Spiders, of course
🏳️🌈rep: bi MC, nb author, a hint of poly?
https://apparitionlit.com/i-wear-my-spiders-in-remembrance-of-myself/
by Kel Coleman
~4,6k words
CW: (under spoiler bc they are a central part of the story)
🏳️🌈rep: bi MC, nb author, a hint of poly?
https://apparitionlit.com/i-wear-my-spiders-in-remembrance-of-myself/
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🔥🍟🔥The Revolution Will Not Be Served with Fries 🔥🍟🔥
by Meg Elison
~4,6k words
This story has three of my favourite things:
1) Robots
2) Revolutions
3) the fantasy that somewhere, somebody cares about you
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-revolution-will-not-be-served-with-fries/
by Meg Elison
~4,6k words
This story has three of my favourite things:
1) Robots
2) Revolutions
3) the fantasy that somewhere, somebody cares about you
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-revolution-will-not-be-served-with-fries/
Lightspeed Magazine
The Revolution Will Not Be Served with Fries - Lightspeed Magazine
“At least when I tell the fucking machine I don’t want pickles, it remembers that I don’t want pickles. Now, what goes on behind the counter is another story. They hire people who can barely read. But at least I’m trusting my order to something intelligent.” The…
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🌌 RE: Bubble 476 🌌
by A.T. Greenblatt
~ I don’t know many words, but it was 12 pages
I loved this, up until the end
https://www.asimovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ASF_Re_Bubble_Greenblatt.pdf
by A.T. Greenblatt
~ I don’t know many words, but it was 12 pages
I loved this, up until the end
https://www.asimovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ASF_Re_Bubble_Greenblatt.pdf
Milan is an ugly, expensive and unlivable place.
And every time I go back, my heart fills with nostalgia.
Milan was a young love story with a shitty partner that ended bc I had to move away, but I did before I could fall out of love. And now I look at it and say: oof, how many red flags.
Yet my heart feels not the cold anger of a bad breakup, only the longing for what could have been.
And every time I go back, my heart fills with nostalgia.
Milan was a young love story with a shitty partner that ended bc I had to move away, but I did before I could fall out of love. And now I look at it and say: oof, how many red flags.
Yet my heart feels not the cold anger of a bad breakup, only the longing for what could have been.
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🐈⬛The Best Way To Procure Breakfast🐈⬛
by Dana Vickerson
CW: grief
My god I’ve tried three different stories Today and they were all so sad
https://zooscape-zine.com/procure-breakfast/
by Dana Vickerson
CW: grief
My god I’ve tried three different stories Today and they were all so sad
https://zooscape-zine.com/procure-breakfast/
I love discovering little new universes.
Did you know there is a Magazine that deal only with SFF furry fiction? https://zooscape-zine.com/about/
Or one just for SFF queer fiction? https://www.bafflingmag.com/about
Or one about translated SFF fiction? http://samovar.strangehorizons.com/about/
And they are all free to read?
The world is vast, and I have so very little time
Did you know there is a Magazine that deal only with SFF furry fiction? https://zooscape-zine.com/about/
Or one just for SFF queer fiction? https://www.bafflingmag.com/about
Or one about translated SFF fiction? http://samovar.strangehorizons.com/about/
And they are all free to read?
The world is vast, and I have so very little time
Baffling Magazine
About — Baffling Magazine
In this shitty adventskalendar that’s my quest to read short stories through all of december, no story Today but a short, delightful nonfic article about stories
~1.2k words
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-necessity-of-trans-joy/
~1.2k words
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-necessity-of-trans-joy/
Uncanny Magazine
The Necessity of Trans Joy - Uncanny Magazine
I. A Note About Audience I think often about Charlie Jane Anders’s magnificent and heartbreaking story “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue.” As I read it, one of the story’s goals is to help cis people (that is, people whose gender matches the sex they were…
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❄️Five Reasons for the Sign Above Her Door, One of Them Unspoken❄️
by Izzy Wasserstein
🏳️🌈 rep: Trans author
One of the stories in yesterday’s article. This was well worth the read.
https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2020/06/five-reasons-for-the-sign-above-her-door-one-of-them-unspoken/
by Izzy Wasserstein
🏳️🌈 rep: Trans author
One of the stories in yesterday’s article. This was well worth the read.
https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2020/06/five-reasons-for-the-sign-above-her-door-one-of-them-unspoken/