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from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.
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No Eradicated in You by Bracken MacLeod ★★★☆☆ A troubled teenager conjures a demon to takeover the role of her mother. I don’t think this will work out for anyone.
Under the Northern Lights - ah, my first Solarpunk romance. I liked it more the first time around, but still enjoyable.And just like that I am less behind, lol!
Women of White Water - drama at the Ecovillage. Even matriarchal close knit communities have their jealousies and lies. I admit to skimming this because the beginning was boring, lol.
Cable Town Delivery - in a post-apocalyptic environmently rebuilding world the library floats along and comes to your town regularly. I liked this more the first time around, this time the focus felt too much on the family spat.
Paper Doll Hyperplane by R.B. Payne ★★★★☆ “He is a powerless god, living forever, but hardly alive.”
A mad scientist turned serial killer gets a nasty karmic surprise.
My Knowing Glance by Lucy Snyder ★★★★½ “It’s just more satisfying to think that he died out of a deep, soul-wrenching despair rather than garden-variety cowardice.”
Type 5 Armageddon Hellspawn, batter up! Gory, violent, and entertaining, Lucy Snyder hits a home run!
Ode to Joad the Toad by Laird Barron DNFI see what Lovecraftian fun they were trying here, and I commend Lovecraftian fun, but they lost the plot early on. Or I did. Or there was none.
Only Bruises Are Permanent by Scott Edelman ★★★★☆
Oh my, that was disturbing. It reminded me of Crash (1996), about finding out about yourself in socially unacceptable ways. She enjoys seeing herself damaged, of the world viewing her as a victim. It’s powerful, a twisted secret, a dark desire.
That was great! I was expecting Bill and Ted but was happily surprised.
Imperfect Clay by Lisa Morton ★★★☆☆ College level Hogwart’s magic conjures a gorgeous Golem - she is still not happy. Magic and men can’t make you happy. You make you happy. Thank you self-help books.
Brains by Ramsey Campbell SkipI lost interest immediately.
You Are My Neighbor by Max Booth III ★★★☆☆
Demon mummy! I wish there had been more parental explanation/ justification but it was spooky if sad.
Grow, Give, Repeat - I tried, and could not read that again. The planimals creep me out something terrible. It’s the worst good idea, I would suffer tofu chicken every time over planimal meat.
Amber Waves - I enjoyed the couple who combined their skills to earn a living as farmers. The rude-big-corporate-goons angle was not resolved. Nice story, but too much the snap shot.
One Last Transformation by Josh Malerman ★★★★☆ Shudder. Maybe because I have been binge watching Criminal Minds, but that felt real in an unsightly way.
Operations Other Than War by Nadia Bulkin ★★★½☆ “Nothing scares the world more than a little backwater country with a weapon.”
The narrator goes his whole life carrying his father’s nightmare. He aggrandizes the Kursattar robot, personally and academically, actually seeing it should have been cathartic - but it wasn’t. That was disappointing to him and the reader.
I like the idea of a matryoshka dolls tattoo Melanie! Was your mother Russian?
A Heart Arrhythmia Creeping into a Dark Room by Michael Wehunt DNFI was ok an ok meta story about a writer scaring himself that descended into stream-of-consciousness nonsense.
Matryoshka by Joanna Parypinski ★★★★☆
Ooh, that was delightfully creepy. The selfish depressed daughter destroying her mother was not original but that twist ending was worth the investment. Doesn’t everyone expect a monster in the attic?
Butcher’s Blend by Brian Hodge ★★★☆☆
With an awkward combination of blunt appeal and gory allusion Hodge champions individuality over despotic conformity.
