Real Sugar is Hard to Find

by Sim Kern

Especially in the first half the writing is not a pleasure to read, but I appreciated the imagination.

  • “Real Sugar is Hard to Find” ★★★
  • “The Listener” ★★★½
  • “The Propagator” ★★★★
  • “The New Nomad” ★★★
  • “The Night Heron” ★★★
  • “Tadpoles” ★★
  • “Unwhole” ★★★★
  • “What Can’t Be Undone” ★★★★
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Miss Muriel and Other Stories

by Ann Petry
  • “Miss Muriel” ★★★½
  • “The New Mirror” ★★★½
  • “Has Anybody Seen Miss Dora Dean?” ★★★½
  • “The Migraine Workers” ★★★½
  • “Mother Africa” ★★★
  • “The Bones of Louella Brown” ★★★★
  • “Olaf and His Girl Friend” ★★½
  • “Like a Winding Sheet” ★½
  • “The Witness” ★½
  • “Solo on the Drums” ★★
  • “The Necessary
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Eleven

by Patricia Highsmith

Beacons of unpleasantness

  • “The Snail-Watcher” ★★½
  • “The Birds Poised to Fly” ★★½
  • “The Terrapin” DNF
  • “When the Fleet was in at Mobile” ★★½
  • “The Quest for ‘Blank Claveringi'” ★★½
  • “The Cries of Love” ★★
  • “Mrs. Afton, Among Thy Green Braes” ★★
  • “The Heroine” ★★
  • “Another Bridge to Cross”
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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators

by Yu Chen, Regina Kanyu Wang (Editors)
  • “The Stars We Raised” by Xiu Xinyu ★★★
  • “What Does the Fox Say?” by Xia Jia ★★★
  • “Blackbird” by Shen Dacheng ★½
  • “The Name of the Dragon” by Ling Chen ★★½
  • “New Year Painting, Ink and Color on Rice Paper, Zhaoqiao Village” by Chen
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Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 3

Marie Hodgkinson (Editor)
  • “New Zealand Gothic” by Jack Remiel Cottrell ★★★
  • “Synaesthete” by Melanie Harding-Shaw ★★★
  • “Death confetti” by Zoë Meager ★★★
  • “How To Get A Girlfriend (When You’re A Terrifying Monster)” by Marie Cardno ★★★
  • “Salt White, Rose Red” by Emily Brill-Holland ★★★
  • “You Can’t Beat Wellington on a Good
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