by Vandana Singh
★★★★½
Tag archives: short stories
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance
by Bethany C. Morrow (Editor)
★★★★
Friday Black
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Uneven, from distasteful sympathies (the anti-abortion Lark Street and the entitled white male murderer redemption story Light Spitter) to scintillating acuity
We Had No Rules
by Corinne Manning
★★★½
Exhalation: Stories
by Ted Chiang
Many of the stories are glaringly built around a fixed idea so that the notes at the end are redundant—or are more interesting than the stories themselves. The surrounding texts are more filler than breathing worlds. “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”, “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”, and … Read more
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
by Kij Johnson
★½
How Long ’til Black Future Month?
by N.K. Jemisin
I managed to finish six of the stories. Generally too on the nose and yielding to stock themes of science fiction. “Walking Awake” was the most engaging even with all the hand-holding, with allusions to Get Out and TNG’s “Conspiracy”.
So far Jemisin’s not for me.
Danses de Guerre
by Sherman Alexie
★★★½
Traplines
by Eden Robinson
Only finished the title story, which was excellent.
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
by Sarah Pinsker
★★★★½
Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
★★★
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
by Zora Neale Hurston
★★★★
This Accident of Being Lost
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
★★★★
Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
(Laksa Anthology Series #3)
by Lucas K. Law, Derwin Mak (Editors)
Read:
- “DNR” by Gabriele Lee ★★★
- “Meridian” by Karin Lowachee ★★★
- “Crash” by Melissa Yuan-Innis ★★★
- “Memoriam” by Priya Sridhar ★★
- “Decision” by Joyce Chng ★
- “Moon Halves” by Anne Carly Abad ★★
- “The Bridge of Dangerous Longings” by Rati
Going To Meet The Man
by James Baldwin
★★★★
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
by Laila Lalami
★★★
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
Believably melodramatic until the absolute betrayal in “The Two”.
Sour Heart
by Jenny Zhang
★★★
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
by Danielle Evans
★★★★
Love: Beyond Body, Space & Time
by Hope Nicholson (Editor)
★★★★