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05. Exhortation, 3 stars. Boss guilts his employees to think positively about their unpleasant jobs in an office memo.
06. Al Roosten, 3 stars. Nasty petty little man gives in to his evil instincts, has constant stream of ugly thoughts.
07. The Semplica Girl Diaries, 3 stars. Man keeps journal, details bad finances and poorly considered decision to make extravagant purchase.

01. Victory Lap, 3 stars. Neighbor boy witnesses attempted abduction of neighbor girl.
02. Sticks, 2 stars. Dad has multifaceted yard decoration.
03. Puppy, 3 stars. Women with radically different parenting styles meet when buying/selling a puppy.
04. Escape from Spiderhead, 4 stars. Murderers are used to test highly experimental drugs.

DNF.

13. Any Corpse, 3 stars. Patronizing the natives has dire consequences if you're not specific.
14. The Moans, 3 stars. Journalist drops acid, has bad trip.
15. The Window, 3 stars. Man has shadowy intruder in his home.
16. Click, 3 stars. Bewildered man wakes up in the "hospital", seems to have committed a crime.
17. The Blood Drip, 3 stars. Man attempts to rescue his friend after being driven away by rocks.

09. BearHeart™, 3 stars. Expectant couple purchase a silly toy as a creepy joke.
10. Scour, 3 stars. Woman wakes up in some sort of facility after surviving a dust storm.
12. Torpor, 3 stars. Selfish wife can only think of herself and her own suffering after husband loses an arm.
13. Past Reno, 3 stars. Man with daddy issues freaks out about driving through Nevada.

05. Three Indignities, 3 stars. Man undergoes degrading medical procedures without fully understanding why.
06. Cult, 4 stars. Passive man goes out of his way to excuse his abusive ex-girlfriend.
07. Seaside Town, 3 stars. Man begrudgingly goes on an overseas vacation, doesn't enjoy himself.
08. The Dust, 4 stars. Tensions are high at an unsuccessful mining operation, exacerbated by mechanical failure.

01. Black Bark, 3 stars. Bandits are trying to take shelter in a cabin, one is gravely injured.
02. A Report, 3 stars. Confused man is thrown in prison, his inability to shut up gets another prisoner tortured.
03. The Punish, 3 stars. Lonely man reconnects with his former childhood friend.
04. A Collapse of Horses, 3 stars. Man's life becomes unbalanced by small shifts in reality after a workplace accident.

Wiki: "The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke."

Word: "...Molly returned home, to the home which was already strange, and what Warwickshire people would call ‘ unked ,’ to her."

1. Not made known or revealed; unknown, unfamiliar, strange.

2. Awkward or troublesome through being unfamiliar or unknown.

3. Unfamiliarly lone or dreary; lonely, dismal, forbiddingly dull.

4. Disagreeable, unpleasant, unnatural, eerie.

27. Rachel Swirsky - Detours on the Way to Nothing, 2 stars. Man has what he thinks is a chance encounter with his fantasy furry.
28. Catherynne M. Valente - Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time, 2 stars. Remixed creation myths interspersed with incidents from the author's life.
29. Élisabeth Vonarburg - Home by the Sea, 3 stars. Stubborn woman discovers she's not what she thought she was, confronts mother.

24. Karin Tidbeck - Aunts, 2 stars. Enormously fat women gorge themselves for the next generation, servants are at a loss.
25. Ursula K. Le Guin - Sur, 3 stars. [2020]
26. Pamela Sargent - Fears, 3 stars. In a world where females are scarce, a woman disguises herself as a man to run errands.

21. Carol Emshwiller - Boys, 3 stars. Armies of roving men fight for the glory of it, steal male children from village women.
22. Eileen Gunn - Stable Strategies for Middle Management, 3 stars. Ambitious woman is dissatisfied with her corporate job, causing her medical procedure to go awry.
23. Tanith Lee - Northern Chess, 4 stars. Female knight can't resist a challenge, regrets insulting someone foolhardy.

18. ■■■Joanna Russ - When It Changed, 3 stars. [2019]
19. Vandana Singh - The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet, 4 stars. Selfish husband is horrified by his submissive wife's sudden personality change.
20. Susan Palwick - Gestella, 4 stars. Young girl's medical condition leaves her vulnerable to a predatory man.

15. Hiromi Goto - Tales from the Breast, 3 stars. New mother finds breast feeding excruciatingly painful, her husband is useless.
16. Angela Carter - The Fall River Axe Murders, 3 stars. The day(s) leading up to the murder of Lizzie Borden's parents.
17. Pat Murphy - Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates, 4 stars. Solitary scientist spends her final days constructing a mating pair of robot lizards.

12. Octavia E. Butler - The Evening and the Morning and the Night, 4 stars. [2016]
13. Anne Richter - The Sleep of Plants, 3 stars. Depressed anemic wants to be left alone to become a tree.
14. Kelly Barnhill - The Men Who Live in Trees, 3 stars. Orphaned (basically) daughter of a banished researcher must marry for convenience.

09. Leena Krohn - Their Mother’s Tears: The Fourth Letter, 2 stars. Woman tours an interesting building, has a chat with the matriarch.
10. James Tiptree Jr. - The Screwfly Solution, 5 stars. [2016]
11. Rose Lemberg - Seven Losses of na Re, 3 stars. The holocaust wiped out the memories of the living, as well as millions of lives.

07. Angélica Gorodischer - The Perfect Married Woman, 4 stars. Boring housewife has a violent streak she indulges in unexpected places.
08. Nalo Hopkinson - The Glass Bottle Trick, 3 stars. Pregnant young wife plans a special meal to tell her temperamental husband the good news.

05. Eleanor Arnason - The Grammarian’s Five Daughters, 3 stars. Daughters go out to seek adventure, all find happiness.
06. Kelley Eskridge - And Salome Danced, 4 stars. Director of play is taken with flirtatious actor who auditions for both sexes.

03. Kit Reed - The Mothers of Shark Island, 2 stars. Mothers are jailed by the complaints of their adult children.
04. Nnedi Okorafor - The Palm Tree Bandit, 3 stars. Women are forbidden to climb certain trees, local woman climbs them anyway.

01. L. Timmel Duchamp - The Forbidden Words of Margaret A., 3 stars. Journalist achieves her ultimate goal, an interview with a woman censored at the highest level by the government.
02. Leonora Carrington - My Flannel Knickers, 3 stars. Formerly beautiful woman tries to get her looks back with dentures.

Wiki: "Her words — except for a few hoarded tapes, newspapers, and samizdat — have been completely obliterated, and the general public has no access to them, and certainly no memory of them."

Samizdat > Ribs (recordings)

25. Souvenir, 3 stars. Long lost colony is rediscovered, has zero desire to join up with a powerful government.
26. Survey Team, 3 stars. Team checks out Mars as a potential escape plan from apocalyptic earth, find it already picked clean.
27. Prominent Author, 3 stars. Office worker communicates with tiny people he meets on his daily commute.

22. James P. Crow, 3 stars. Humans are servants to robots, the superior race.
23. Planet For Transients, 3 stars. Unmutated human from underground goes looking on the surface for others like him.
24. Small Town, 3 stars. Miserable cuckold vents his frustration on his model train village.

19. Adjustment Team, 3 stars. A small error in timing makes a man late for work, and a witness to what goes on backstage.
20. The Impossible Planet, 3 stars. Ancient dying woman wants to see the mythical planet Earth before she kicks the bucket.
21. Imposter, 3 stars. Man desperately tries to prove his identity after being escaping arrest for an espionage accusation.

16. The Hood Maker, 3 stars. Telepathic conspiracy to take over the government doesn't consider the long term.
17. Of Withered Apples, 3 stars. Apple tree flirts aggressively with a young wife, but she resists.
18. Human Is, 3 stars. Cruel snippy husband returns from a business trip with a whole new attitude.

13. The Trouble With Bubbles, 3 stars. People take out their frustrations on tiny toy planets they painstakingly manipulate into evolving.
14. Breakfast At Twilight, 2 stars. Annoying suburban family gets sucked into a recent-future war zone.
15. A Present For Pat, 3 stars. Husband gifts wife a tiny temperamental God, she is less than appreciative.

10. The World She Wanted, 3 stars. Pushy woman decides she's the only real person in the world, but Larry won't bend to her will.
11. A Surface Raid, 3 stars. Underground mutants go to the surface to abduct people, young one is flustered by a pretty girl.
12. Project: Earth, 3 stars. Observer has his tiny people stolen by a child, ruining his research.

07. Some Kinds Of Life, 3 stars. Fighting endless wars for stuff.
08. Martians Come In Clouds, 3 stars. Alien refugees are treated like unwanted household insects.
09. The Commuter, 3 stars. Man tries to buy a ticket to a place that doesn't exist.

04. Jon's World, 3 stars. Post-apocalyptic society invents a time machine to steal pre-war technology, guy is terrible father.
05. The Cosmic Poachers, 3 stars. Terrans shoot first when alien race has something shiny they like the look of.
06. Progeny, 3 stars. Robots raise children to their full potential, human beings stink.

01. The Cookie Lady, 3 stars. Listless young boy's visits make an old woman feel rejuvenated.
02. Beyond The Door, 4 stars. Nasty man begrudgingly buys girlfriend a present, is unpleasant to everyone.
03. Second Variety, 4 stars. [2017]