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faint brush strokes evoking the image of an open human rib cage with the title You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

What Is “The Apocalypse” Anyway But Another Series of Bad Days, Or Same As It Ever Was, Or It’s Irrelevant

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson

November 19, 2023 by Flimflamingo 1 Comment

I can’t really explain it, but You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a near five star book. I rated it 4.5 stars on Storygraph and I’m not quite sure why I didn’t rate it a 5. I want to… there’s something… but I want to. But I won’t. Because there’s something on the tip of my tongue or on the cusp of catchable thoughts that maybe I can’t articulate. Or maybe I’m just that much of a hard ass. There are a few things […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: alternate history, Between the Wires, dystopia, epistolary, Janina Mathewson, Jeffrey Cranor, Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson, lesbian, lgbt, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, queer, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: alternate history, Between the Wires, dystopia, epistolary, Janina Mathewson, Jeffrey Cranor, Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson, lesbian, lgbt, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, queer, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs ·
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