Holly Lyn Walrath's Blog: Stories, page 8
September 28, 2022
Seductive Romantic Thriller DECISION TO LEAVE Steals Hearts
One of my favorite tropes in the mystery genre is when the detective ends up falling for his suspect, and in particular, a female suspect. There’s something entrancing about women killers in film — if only because they are so rare.
Decision to Leave (Moho Film, 2022) is the story of detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il), who is investigating the death of a climber. When he interviews the dead man’s wife, Seo-rae (Tang Wei), he immediate...
September 27, 2022
Indie Comedy UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS Understands Intersectionality
Images Courtesy Unidentified Objects Film, LLC“Only the language of dreams and fantasies can capture how I (and so many others in this melting pot world) feel. Immigrants and other outsiders share a liminal space together. Neither here nor there.”
— Juan Felipe Zuleta
Every once and a while you come across a film that breaks you open...
September 26, 2022
Indie Film THE ANTARES PARADOX Is a Love Letter to Women in STEM
Women are often overlooked in STEM. Even beyond careers in science, women are told they are too dedicated to their professions — whether it be as lawyers, doctors, or creatives. It Is far less likely for a woman to be accepted for choosing work over family. This judgment comes from all sides — and Alexandra’s struggle with it feels particularly fitting.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how much we lost during the pandemic...
September 25, 2022
Japanese Film MISSING Surprises with Its Take on the Serial Killer Genre
TW: This review contains discussions of depression, suicide, and abuse of people with disabilities.
MISSING (Fortissimo Films) is the directorial debut of Katayama Shinzo, a former assistant director of popular Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho of Parasite fame. It follows a father named Santoshi (Jiro Sato) who is trying to provide for his daughter Kaeda (Aoi Ito) after the death of her mother (Toko Narushima) from ALS.
In the midst of this famil...
September 24, 2022
The Menu Is a Hilarious Satirical Takedown of Restaurant Culture
“The filmmakers craft a satire that’s as sharp as a knife, honing in on exquisitely bizarre details that only those familiar with restaurant culture will notice (or, you know, if you watch a lot of Iron Chef.)”
If you’ve never eaten at an avant-garde restaurant run by a Michelin quality chef, let me tell you the story of one I visited recen...
September 23, 2022
Two IFP Books Win the SFPA Elgin Award
Interstellar Flight Press is delighted to announce that two of our 2021 poetry titles have won the SFPA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association) Elgin Award for best full-length poetry book and best chapbook.
The Elgin Awards, named for SFPA founder Suzette Haden Elgin, are presented annually by SFPA for books published in the preceding two years in two ...
April 3, 2019
Restoration
On the day the saints remove their habits—shedding black veils, letting their long locks free in sheets of amber cotton or untamed tangles of black, twisting around heads like halos—on that day, the flower man comes.
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Fairy Tale, 495 words, first appeared 2017at Remixt →
June 24, 2018
Confessions of a Tree Nymph
In the tree world where I live, trees are not substantive. Instead, they are doorways, two oaken lines with a dark, sparkling maw between. When I step through, I’m in the tree world, my world.
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Fairy Tale, 936 words, first appeared 2015 at 365 Tomorrows →
May 13, 2018
Mermaid Hunt
When hunting mermaids, it’s best to keep your rudder close and your first mate closer. That’s why Captain Marda allows these brief nighttime trysts with Barth. Barth lays his stubble against the smooth white of the place under her collarbone, and she keeps the map open on the communicator. He whispers things like, “fins like gold” and “seaweed hair” to himself, into her thighs, and she watches the dot of their sub blink across the blue screen.
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Fantasy, 936 words, first appeared 2015 at Pulp Literature →
February 28, 2018
The Joy of Baking
It’s amazing how much easier it is to bake a cake when you’ve got an eternity to get it right. The secret to effective baking is patience, followed by the ability to fold the batter with a metal spoon instead of rushing in with a wooden spoon like a hammer. The folding in must be gentle so as not to break the hard-earned bubbles of air. Lastly, a baker must have the willingness to guard the oven, your feet cold on the tile, letting the warm scents of butter and vanilla envelop you and seep into the whole house, holding your breath while the batter rises, goldens, and browns slightly at the edges.Continue Reading → Fantasy, 2,436 words, first appeared July 2017 at Luna Station Quarterly →
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