Short Stories – Page 75 – Cannonball Read 17

The short story as an interlude

Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

January 14, 2020 by lowercasesee 1 Comment

I must just have not been reading the right short stories because ever since I finally got around to How Long Till Black Future Month I have found my gear. Sabrina & Corina is one of the most fantastic story collections you will find out there right now, I fell into this book and never looked to come up for air. There is something about the way Fajardo-Anstine weaves her stories that makes them feel less separate, if that makes sense. This isn’t a disparate assembly of […]

Full Throttle – Another good short story collection from the Kings

Full Throttle by Joe Hill

January 11, 2020 by MarkAbaddon 1 Comment

I have enormous respect for authors who step out of their comfort zone to try new things in their writing style. Joe Hill has always done that and this collection is no different. Most of the stories work but unfortunately some fell flat to me. When one takes chances, that is invariably a result, but as a reader I respect the effort and it makes me want to read more of that author going forward. There are two stories Joe wrote with his Dad, Stephen […]

Were I to Pull Every Line that Made Me Gasp I Would be Quoting the Book in its Entirety

The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt

January 7, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

I’d lick my lips, slowly, letting my pink tongue dangle out of my black mouth a little just like some animal waiting by the side of the road for the driver who killed it to come back one more time and kill it again This collection is stitched together with muscle, sinew, and blood. Samantha Hunt writes in a way that tears apart beautiful language and forces you to read the story through twisted entrails like a time-forgotten seer. The tales are modern in theme […]

A powerful sorceress, a tiny man, and some ponies

Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 by James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel (editors)

January 5, 2020 by KimMiE" 2 Comments

I’m lucky to live near so many Little Free Libraries. According to the official website, 10 such diminutive lending centers are located in my zip code, and I’m pretty sure there are a few others that aren’t noted. Whenever I walk my neighborhood, I stop at the libraries located along my route and check out whether anything new and interesting has appeared, and occasionally contribute something to the stash. I recently happened upon a couple of Nebula Awards Showcase collections and decided they’d be great […]

“Never, never will you use the brains the good God has given you.”

Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3) by Agatha Christie

January 4, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

Have been reading this in bits and pieces since November, but got a hankering to finish it this morning. I also realized it fits in with my only reading books by or about badass ladies in January, because Agatha Christie was certainly a badass lady. I don’t do short stories very often, for a lot of reason, but mainly because the idea of them exhausts me. You get invested for so little payoff, over and over again. But I think I might have to rethink […]

“When Franklin D roosevelt was President-elect there must have been sculptors all over America who wanted a chance to model his head from life, but my mother had connections.”

Liars in the Love by Richard Yates

Uncollected Stories by Richard Yates

January 3, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Liars in Love This is the second collection of short stories by Richard Yates and compared to the first collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, the quality is as good an probably better, but there’s a clear distinction in terms of form, execution, and style here. For one, these stories are less the kinds of slices of life and vignettes expanded to stories that that first collection was and more so more rounded out stories, almost no punchiness at all, and a clearer focus and maturity in […]

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