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Assorted Short Fiction II

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones

The AI Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

Yard Work by David Koepp

Anonymous by Uzodinma Iweala

There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed by Edgar Cantero

The Remedy by Adam Haslett

Falls the Shadow by Skip Horack

Screwball by Simon Rich

The Beckoning Fair One by Dan Chaon

Q&A by Ben Winters

Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

Decorum at the Deathbed by Josh Malerman

April 2, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Night of the Mannequins – 3/5 Stars – Stephen Graham Jones This is a newish novella from Stephen Graham Jones that you’ll have to roll with the bad title and go with it because it does some very interesting things. It has a significant flaw by the end, and the way I will describe that is that it either doesn’t trust the audience or trust itself to make the more interesting choice. The plot involves a group of teenagers, friends and frenemies, who friend works […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adam haslett, Alfred Uhry, Alyssa Cole, Ben Winters, Dan Chaon, David Koepp, Edgar Cantero, josh malerman, simon rich, Skip Horack, Stephen Graham Jones, Susan Glaspell, uzodinma iweala

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:142 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adam haslett, Alfred Uhry, Alyssa Cole, Ben Winters, Dan Chaon, David Koepp, Edgar Cantero, josh malerman, simon rich, Skip Horack, Stephen Graham Jones, Susan Glaspell, uzodinma iweala ·
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Well, Go On Now, Speak

November 11, 2018 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

This morning on CBS Sunday Morning, the cover story was a piece about gay conversion therapy. Though the introduction by Jane Pauley made it sound like this issue was something with two clear sides, the story mainly focused on the pain this practice has caused. The pain felt by those forced to undergo it, the pain felt by parents who thought they were saving their children’s souls by sending their sons and daughters to these programs, and the pain felt by certain religious figures who […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Immigrant Coming Out Stories, listicles, Speak No Evil, uzodinma iweala, Waukegan Public Library

Jenny S's CBR10 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Immigrant Coming Out Stories, listicles, Speak No Evil, uzodinma iweala, Waukegan Public Library ·
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I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.

March 19, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is small book told by a small person and involving a small world. There’s a kind of claustrophobic feel and tone to this novel and that is both terrifying and horrifying, but it’s awful oddly reassuring both for us as readers and for the narrator. I bought this novel when it first came out, and skipped the movie because I never ended up reading it. Now, the author has a new book that’s been recently published and well I figured I would want to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: beasts of no nations, uzodinma iweala

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:66 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: beasts of no nations, uzodinma iweala ·
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