Tag: short story glory

Here are some short stories (and maybe a few poems, and some longer short works) I’ve enjoyed this quarter! Please feel free to recommend more in the comments, I make no pretense that I’ve gotten to everything good that’s come out this year.

Yours, Wickedly: A Story in Thirteen Letters, Stephanie Burgis (Sunday Morning Transport)

The Naming of Knots, M. A. Carrick (BCS)

The Sand Knows Its Way Home, L. Chan (Reckoning)

Merciful Even to Scorpions, Kay Chronister (BCS)

“Equal Forces Opposed in Exquisite Tension,” John Chu (New Suns 2)

“Between Truth and Death on the Murmansk-Saint Petersburg Line,” Zohar Jacobs (Sunday Morning Transport)

“Juan,” Darcie Little Badger (New Suns 2)

“Dragons of Yuta,” Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (New Suns 2)

“Bayanihan,” Maricar Macario (F&SF Sept/Oct 23)

The Kingdom of Darkness, Sarah Monette (Uncanny)

To Dust Returned, Rita Oakes (BCS)

“The Plant and the Purist,” Malka Older (New Suns 2)

SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER, T.K. Rex (Reckoning)

Till the Greenteeth Draw Us Down, Josh Rountree (The Deadlands)

“Approved Methods of Love Divination in the First-Rate City of Dushagorod,” Kristina Ten (F&SF Jul/Aug 23)

What It Means to Love a City, Mo Usavage (Reckoning)

“Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood,” Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)

The Three O’Clock Dragon, John Wiswell (Tor.com)

Review copy provided by the publisher.

I’ve heard a lot of discussion of climate horror in recent years. While the stories in this volume are plenty horrified, the dominant emotion is not mostly horror. It’s what I’d describe as anguish. There are so many animals, so many plants, so many habitats in decline or obliterated, and Cade is not looking away from it, she’s showing not just the devastated futures but the devastation from them. There are a few stories that are more upbeat, more whimsical, more of the places people are pulling up their socks and going on. But in order to get there we’re going to have to go through the hard years, and Cade is not flinching away from that part, not for a moment.

I think one of my favorite things about Cade’s writing has always been her grounding in both poetry and science. This is a work of prose, but the poetic language and the science grounding both inform it, both give it different kinds of precision, and I love that. I love that even when it’s ripping me to pieces. I love it perhaps especially then.

For my third story of the month, I’m going to need a field of study, a type of being, and a mode of entertainment. Anybody?

I heard “anthropology,” “alien,” and “comedy improv”! Great! Here’s Yes And in Nature Futures!

New story out today! Translunar Travelers Lounge brings you Spark of Change, today’s new story about phoenix eggs, fraught sibling relationships, and a city on the edge of…whatever comes next. Go, read, enjoy!

New story out today in Haven Spec! Monster of the Month Club returns to my old monstrous stomping grounds for a new tale inspired by, yes, my childhood obsession with the little cheeses or teas or jams or…anything of the month really. But this time monsters! So many monsters! Find out about them in this fairly short story!

I’m sorry to tell you that my new story in Nature Futures features humans. UGH, HUMANS. WHO CAN EVEN WITH THEM. But don’t worry, there are other species in it too. Read Tourist Season!

New story in Sunday Morning Transport this morning, Exiled to Gravity! It’s got truth and lies, family relationships, disability, space stations…it’s full of a number of things, is what I’m saying here.

(If you don’t have a subscription, it will be a teaser. If you get my newsletter, there was a link for a short-term subscription, though….)

A reprint of my story “A Worm to the Wise” is out in this lovely volume.

I still love soil science and wish there was more SF about it, but also the rest of the stories are worth your time if you didn’t read them in the original online project–or if you did and would really like a stable version of them.