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And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges by Amber Sparks

May 25, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 12 Comments

These stories have been told before. Most are fairly clever fairy tales retold, some are veiled retellings of myth and history, and a few are sparkling new. They have been told before in the sense that they are retellings, but they have also been told before in the sense that other authors have done these before, and done them better. It was difficult to find the author’s voice; reading the collection felt less like one author’s work and more like an anthology of the who’s […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: Amber Sparks, catholic iconography, Fairy Tales, magical realism, micro stories, mythology, very short stories

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:52 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: Amber Sparks, catholic iconography, Fairy Tales, magical realism, micro stories, mythology, very short stories ·
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It ends with a text, friend to friend: I’m out.

And I Do Not Forgive You by Amber Sparks

April 13, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The opening story of this collection involves in the complicated mess of modern friendships which can be as impactful and hurtful as romantic relationships, but are missing the defining boundaries of those so a ghosting between friends is harder to process. And I think this becomes a model through which most of these stories find their defining shape and quality. A short, snappy collection of stories that both flows and reads really quickly and interestingly, and almost instantly fades as quickly. This book reminds me a […]

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: Amber Sparks, And I do not forgive you

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:197 · Genres: Short Stories · Tags: Amber Sparks, And I do not forgive you ·
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