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#ShortStories

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Richard Lea

Thinking of the #editor Matt Weiland, who says that publishers 'make public, and that involves a lot of jumping up and down and waving arms and honking'.

So #JumpingUpAndDown about Susanna Clarke returning to the world of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.

#WavingArms that she's throwing new light on The Raven King.

And #honking that her short story is exclusively in @fictionable

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#books #reading #writing #publishing #ShortStories #fiction #bookstodon @bookstodon

www.fictionable.worldThe Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City by Susanna ClarkeWhen the Raven King arrived in northern England at the head of a fairy army, he found a country divided. Susanna Clarke charts shifting allegiances between English, Norman and fairy
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Ciara

'One of those troubled types who stare at the ground and fail to see it'.'

'I wanted to kiss her. I'd kissed girls before, but never sober during the day.'

First time I've read Philip Ó Ceallaigh and won't be the last. Good collection so far. Lots of nice little observations and character sketches tucked into single sentences.

#Fredagsbog
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Resting on a black bag, my paperback edition of the short story collection Trouble by Philip Ó Ceallaigh. Cover: Dark blue background with a small illustration of a cityscape in the middle in vivid orange colours. The title and author name are in large sans serif white type. At the bottom, this praise quote from John Banville: 'A wonderful writer who dares to stay loyal to the short-story form. Here is a master in full control of his material.'
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Andrew Kuchling

Let's get started on the Hugo Awards with the short story category!

I'm really enjoying Nghi Vo's ongoing sequence of stories about Depression-era magic. In "Stitched to Skin Like Family Is", a young Asian woman is searching for her brother in the western US, using her magical ability to keep herself safe; the search takes her somewhere very dark. (This story feels like a sibling to the movie "Sinners", which I recently saw; it's also fantasy/horror set in the 1930s.) uncannymagazine.com/article/st

Marginalia, by Mary Robinette Kowal, is a fantasy story in your basic medieval setting of castles and knights, but with the addition of giant acid-secreting snails that ravage the landscape. A woman is living in a small cottage with her mother and younger brother, and faces unexpected danger when the latest snail comes creeping along. The story is made additionally poignant when you know (from acknowledgements in Kowal's other books) that her mother has Parkinson's -- I hope her mom is doing OK. uncannymagazine.com/article/ma

Ursula K. LeGuin's story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is a touchstone of socially-oriented SF, and various people have written responses to it. Isabel J. Kim's "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole" is a cuttingly sardonic one. clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_0

Five Views of the Planet Tartarus, by Rachael K. Jones, is a tight (only 549 words!) and bleak story of future punishment. lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction

"We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read", by Caroline M. Yoachim, is an experiment in typography, something like concrete poetry. I found it just mildly interesting – too abstract for me.
lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction

Arkady Martine's "Three Faces of a Beheading" is slightly less abstract, but I found it a slog even though it's only 4100 words. uncannymagazine.com/article/th

Uncanny MagazineStitched to Skin like Family Is - Uncanny MagazineMy stitches laddered their way up the split seam, in and out one side, across, and then in and out the other. When you pulled the thread through, if you had done the job right, it closed the seam like it had never been torn at all. The salesman kept glancing from me to the […]
#books#TheHugoAwards#sf
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WanderingHuman 🇨🇦

I'm looking to explore some short stories, but there is so much out there. Can anyone recommend some collections or anthologies of contemporary #shortstories or novellas? Nothing too dark or "out there", but I'm otherwise open to genre. I'd particularly like some new ideas, or new takes on old themes, and stories with good character development. #literature #bookstodon #reading

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Hannah Steenbock

It's #BookBirthday for a friend of mine!

"Human Nature and Other Stories" by JM Taylor

Where's the best place to find a vampire in Glasgow these days?
How do you make a bargain with a Bean-nighe?
How do you trap a witch in a glass?

Thirteen original tales of the weird and supernatural, inspired by the legends, history, landscape and culture of Scotland, from the ancient past to modern cities.

amazon.com/Human-Nature-Other-

Congratulations!

@QuokkaMocha

#Horror
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Cover of the book Human Nature and Other Stories by J.M. Taylor The cover shows a pained stag in front of a mountainous landscape. There's a moon hidden in the mist, faintly glowing to the left of the antlers of the stag. The entire image is kept to an eerie blue and purple hue, with decorative swirls in the corners as well as at the top and the bottom, where the author's name and the title are.
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