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Jerry Barlow eased the ’67 Sportster to the edge of the sand road and shut off the motor.

Tiny Love by Larry Brown

January 28, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I don’t know whether or not people know much about or like Larry Brown. He was born in Oxford, Mississippi–the hometown of William Faulkner, and they crossed in timelines for about 10 years. But Larry Brown was a longtime fire chief, then sat down to write thriller stories, to middling success, and ending up writing a number of short stories, and a half dozen or so novels. His novels are a little all over the place (as with a lot of writers) in terms of […]

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: Larry Brown, Tiny Love

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:42 · Genres: Short Stories · Tags: Larry Brown, Tiny Love ·
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No, Not All Is Said.

Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer

January 26, 2020 by blauracke Leave a Comment

The history of a fictional empire is told by various storytellers who not only narrate what happened but also distort it by looking at events through the mists of time and the traditions and mannerisms of their profession. Hence their stories work as allegories, fables, or social commentaries that teach moral lessons or make a point about the nature of the world more than they impart knowledge about the subject at hand in general or about its past. The stories are very loosely connected to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Angélica Gorodischer

blauracke's CBR12 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Angélica Gorodischer ·
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Short story review dump (Part I)

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Barn Burning by Haruki Murakami

Mastiff by Joyce Carol Oates

A Village After Dark by Kazuo Ishiguro

King of the Elves by Philip K Dick

The Second Bakery Attack by Haruki Murakami

January 26, 2020 by ingres77 2 Comments

So I was nerding out a couple weeks ago, and started another database. This time, I wanted to compile a list of all the stories written by as many well-regarded authors as I could think of. It started off with just novels, but quickly grew to include short stories. Which means the database got out of control pretty quickly. I knew that many (most?) authors publish a lot of short stories – but when you actually see them all lined up….. It made me realize […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: haruki murakami, Joyce Carol Oates, Kazuo Ishiguro, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson, short stories

ingres77's CBR12 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: haruki murakami, Joyce Carol Oates, Kazuo Ishiguro, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson, short stories ·
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A whole lot of Christie short stories

The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

January 20, 2020 by Aquillia 3 Comments

Recently, my husband went away for work for a few days, and I treated myself to a puzzle and took full advantage of my Scribd subscription. After a while, I wanted a break from fantasy and also wanted something that didn’t involve too much thinking, so I returned to one of my old comfort reads: Agatha Christie. I’ve read and re-read most of the novels, so now I turned to her short stories collections. Some of them I had read before, some I recognized from […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: agatha christie

Aquillia's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Mystery, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: agatha christie ·
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Fizzy, Fizzle, Fizz

One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin

January 18, 2020 by plaidhamster Leave a Comment

I don’t know if I liked this book or not. When I started it I loved it. The three longer form stories that open Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses are propulsive and intense. I read them sitting on a curb in the parking lot during a break at work. The second story “Madmen” about a world where young ladies are taken to a shelter to pick out a Madman to care for are a rite of passage into adulthood, is a soulful comment […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Apocalypses, cbr12, Experimental Fiction, Flash Fiction, Lucy Corin

plaidhamster's CBR12 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: #Science Fiction, Apocalypses, cbr12, Experimental Fiction, Flash Fiction, Lucy Corin ·
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I read this one too slow

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

January 15, 2020 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

This is all on me. I read this too slow and it returned itself to the library before I could jot down my highlighted lines. I am not a digital highlighter AT ALL but I flagged at least four spots in here because the language was just that damn good and now they’re GONE. I read this slow because, well, I wasn’t sure I was going to finish it. I was about 40% through and just like “Ugh, okay, I’ll make it halfway, that’s good […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Ross Gay

lowercasesee's CBR12 Review No:7 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Ross Gay ·
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