Shimmer 2018: The Collected Stories

by E. Catherine Tobler, Sam Rebelein, Rebecca Campbell

Contents:

Black Fanged Thing by Sam Rebelein
An Incomplete Catalogue of Miraculous Births, or Secrets of the Uterus Abscondita by Rebecca Campbell
Me, Waiting for Me, Hoping for Something More by Dee Warrick
Held by Ian O'Reilly
The Triumphant Ward of the Railroad and the Sea by Sara Saab
They Have a Name for That by Sara Beitia
The Imitation Sea by Lora Gray
If a Bear ... by Kathrin Köhler?
Faint Voices, Increasingly Desperate by Alan DeNiro [as by Anya Johanna DeNiro]
Gone to Earth by Octavia Cade
What the Skeleton Detective Tells You (while you picnic) by Katherine Kendig
You, in Flux by Alexis A. Hunter
The Passenger by Emily Lundgren
Milkteeth by Kristi DeMeester
Bleeding from the Shadows by David Rees-Thomas
Rapture by Meg Elison
The Ghost Pet Detective by Ryan Row
By the Hand That Casts It by Stephanie Charette
Find on Your Body the Bruise by Maricat Stratford
Lighthouse Waiting by Gwendolyn Clare
Dead Things by Becca De La Rosa
Rotkäppchen by Emily McCosh
The Witch in the Woods Falls in Love a Third Time by Kate Lechler
Streuobstwiese by Steve Toase
Lake Mouth by Casey Hannan
40 Facts About the Strip Mall at the Corner of Never and Was by Alex Acks
Antumbra by Cory Skerry
The Time Traveler's Husband by A. C. Wise
Tyrannocora Regina by Leonie Skye
Rust and Bone by Mary Robinette Kowal
From the Void by Sarah Gailey
Thistledown Sky by Stephen Case
Ghosts of Bari by Wren Wallis

374 pages, Paperback

First published November 29, 2018

About the author

E. Catherine Tobler has written an awful lot of things. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Sturgeon Memorial Award, the Nebula Award, the Utopia Award. Her work on Shimmer Magazine was nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Reviews

[Octavia Cade · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have a story in here ("Gone to Earth") so I am clearly biased, but still. Shimmer was one of my favourite markets - such a shame it closed down! - because of the very strong aesthetic of its stories. Often magazines have a broad range of story types, but Shimmer tended to have a strong focus on prose, curating stories for lyricism as much as for plot, which was often sad and/or horrifying. My wheelhouse, in other words... the exact type of thing I like to read and like to write. So of course I'm going to enjoy this collection, which consists of all the stories they published in 2018. While there were a very few I didn't care for, most of the stories in here were excellent. Stand-outs for me included "The Imitation Sea" by Lora Gray, "Milkteeth" by Kristi DeMeester, "Streuobstwiese" by Steve Toase, and "From the Void" by Sarah Gailey.