Story reviews
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Reading Thoughts October 2024 – Short Fiction – Two Summer Issues
I stumbled upon Aôthen Magazine this month, a very interesting classics magazine that publishes work related to the ancient Mediterranean. I am thrilled by this project for several reasons. I think too often some parts of academia try to separate artistic ventures from scholarly ones and this magazine works to marry the two. I also…
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Reading Thoughts – May 2024 – The Voice in the Night
I went down a winding road this month of related works. In my last reading post, I read through Delicious in Dungeon by Ryōko Kui. Miscellaneous Monster Tales -1- has a gag about the walking mushrooms in the dungeons, and a man turning into a mushroom creature called a Matango after eating walking mushrooms every…
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Review – Old Moon Quarterly Issues 1 and 2
I was particularly happy to stumble across Old Moon Quarterly recently, as it helps fills a niche that could always use new outlets in the spec-fic magazine landscape. Old Moon Quarterly publishes “weird sword-and-sorcery fiction set in a historical paranormal setting or a secondary-world, with a focus on well-rounded characters driving strange action.” While I…
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What I read in February 2022
I’m back after a short break from reviewing! In February I checked out Issue 1 of Archive of the Odd. The magazine presents itself as an archive of found documents, and all the stories within are some form of realistic artifact, be that notes on a PhD dissertation, text logs, NDAS, forums, or scientific reports…
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What I read in October 2021
I had such high hopes for my reading this month, even foolishly tweeting out my book plans for all to see. I read exactly one book in October, and it was absolutely none of the ones pictured above. But not all was lost! While I didn’t quite read as many books as I wanted this…
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What I read in September 2021
This month I took a break to chill out and read some Star Trek novels. I also read at turns gripping and charming short stories at Lit Up, Starward Shadows Quarterly, and Flash Point Science Fiction. I am switching up my formatting for this post so the short stories come first. I read some great…
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What I read in August 2021
I read a lot of great genre fiction this month, truly a fantastic August! Dragons, robots, and stellar phenomena abound! Books: The Burning Day and Other Strange Stories by Charles Payseur – I first encountered Payseur’s work with The Death of Paul Bunyan in Lightspeed Magazine. I remember listening to the audio version of the…
Gabrielle Bleu 