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from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.
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The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team by Joe R. Lansdale ★★★★½
This is my second Lansdale short story and I am officially a fan. I like his colorful landscape, human connections, and bright unexpected violence. The story leaves you wanting a novella’s worth of backstory: How did young female gladiatorial sports become a grassroots movement on Mars? Is this a matriarchal planet? How does the respect of young violence translate to success in the rest of their lives? I liked that the author put forth that beauty does not last but perhaps camaraderie and vicious reputations do.
The Cage (2002) by Jeff Vandermeer ★★★★☆
Too often Vandermeer’s weird does not leave me with enough to hang onto, but not today. This spooky story of a long ago mass disappearance coupled with mounting local horrors left no room for escape. The otherworldly mushrooms and their lizard king are gonna get ya!
He’s a boil of bad decisions, a living breathing walk of shame.
The puppet part was good horror but i disliked the MC and did not find her a credible advocate for the paranormal.
The Puppet Motel by Gemma Files ★★½☆☆ Boring frustrated millennial haunted house story. The half star is for the touch of Lovecrafty goodness but it was too long.
Oh dear god, and Ted Cruz tried to get away to Cancun, Mexico: https://youtu.be/Ya7UsTYivLkI live in third world facepalm.
Birds of Passage by Gordon B. White ★★★★☆
If The Willows were a father son camping trip written like an episode of The Wonder Years you would have this story. I wish there had been more but its spooky nostalgia was better than the previous stories.
Meanwhile El Paso, not on ERCOT with a winterized system, did not have the same problems: https://youtu.be/pTAxcZ0maJs
I’ve lost home internet and the water pressure slowed but it seems that I live close enough to a military base to be on their “node.” I have been crazy lucky.
Oh yeah. I wanted to roll Abbott down a steep hill for scapegoating green energy and ERCOT while the massive elephant of a problem we have is deregulation. The older gentleman I brought paella to texted me this today:“Never expect a Republican led state to plan for the future if it costs money and hinders corporate profits.
Obviously CPS is exempt from that point”
That was a good article but here’s what it doesn’t mention - Texas is the only state with unregulated power. You know what one of the Federal Regulations is - Winterizing.https://youtu.be/M-EUcQIndzE
She looks like Harley Quinn but sounds like Eva Green, that’s a very specific British accent. Sweet Canavan! How did your pipes fair? A lot of my neighbors have had explosions. In the smaller towns the water level is reaching critical levels because of them. Today I made Paella and took the dogs to deliver some to one of my neighbors that’s been deep in this hell. One house fine, one house hell. But the dogs love it.
Mortal Kombat: https://youtu.be/6vJRJO4In_4The cast is a disappointment compared to the original but I will still watch it eventually.
Cruella: https://youtu.be/4YAHI9tZVKs
Where Emma Stone desperately channels Eva Green. Why didn’t they just cast Eva Green?
We just got word the power grid is about to fail. Lots of my friends have been loosing power on and off. I could kick myself for not buying firewood this year but usually it just sits there crumbling into a mess. There will be a lot of cold Texans tonight. Keep us in your thoughts.
A Song For Wounded Mouths Kristi DeMeester ★★☆☆☆ The worlds most depressing fag hag walks into a haunted house. She did not care about herself so neither did I.
That was a boring beginning. It started off well with 80s reference and a spooky vibe but that was it. Nothing happens.
Ready for horror.
Nine Alternate Alternate Histories by Benjamin Rosenbaum ★☆☆☆☆ That’s not a story you lazy...
Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life by Lucius Shepard ★★★☆☆ “It promised to be a disgusting business, retrieving the notebooks of my dead brothers, but I had my career to think of.”
Kith and kin to All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By, this story was sex, sweat, violence, mystery, and paranormal horror encrusted by Vietnam. I DNF’d Hunt but I thought I could make it through a short story version. I did not like it but it had moments of insight and dark humor that made the journey worth it.
