by Sarah Pinsker
★★★★½
Tag archives: short stories
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)
★★★★
Sultana’s Dream: A Feminist Utopia and Selections from The Secluded Ones
by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
★★★
In the Country
by Mia Alvar
★★★½
Ayiti
by Roxane Gay
★★★½
All the Names They Used for God
by Anjali Sachdeva
★★★★½
Paper Teeth
by Lauralyn Chow
★
Difficult Women
by Roxane Gay
A collection of marriage- and baby-normative stories with nearly identical protagonists. All formidably written of course.
Homesick for Another World
by Ottessa Moshfegh
Capably written single-formula stories that are casually fatphobic, ableist, dismissive of the other while centring another ‘other’.
Starlings
by Jo Walton
★★★★½
The Witch and Other Stories
by Anton Chekhov
Incidentally, my favourite short stories by Chekhov are not found in this collection. They are: “At Christmas Time”, “The Horse-Stealers”, and “A Nincompoop”.