{"id":2548,"date":"2019-07-05T05:56:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T10:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2019-07-05T05:56:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T10:56:55","slug":"short-stories-ive-liked-sorta-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2548","title":{"rendered":"Short stories I&#8217;ve liked sorta-recently"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had a big chunk of time when I just wasn&#8217;t reading short stories much, and when I asked for recommendations from that time I got very little. So as usual, <em>please<\/em>, if there&#8217;s stuff you&#8217;ve been enjoying, give me links in the comments. (And while it&#8217;s fine to link to stuff from 2018 and before in the interest of a good read, what I&#8217;m mostly interested in with these posts is recent-ish fiction&#8211;this-year-ish mostly.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Also a poem or two might sneak in, you never know.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chen Qiufan, Coming of the Light (<em>Broken Stars<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Chu, <a href=\"https:\/\/uncannymagazine.com\/article\/probabilitea\/\">Probibilitea<\/a> (Uncanny)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tiny Connolly, <a href=\"https:\/\/uncannymagazine.com\/article\/a-sharp-breath-of-birds\/\">A Sharp Breath of Birds<\/a> (Uncanny)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicky Drayden, The Rat King of Spanish Harlem (Fiyah Issue 9)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meg Elison, Hey Alexa (<em>Do Not Go Quietly<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theodora Goss, <a href=\"https:\/\/uncannymagazine.com\/article\/the-cinder-girl-burns-brightly\/\">The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly<\/a> (Uncanny)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rachael K. Jones, Oil Under Her Tongue (<em>Do Not Go Quietly<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cassandra Khaw, What We Have Chosen to Love (<em>Do Not Go Quietly<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonathan Kincaid, The Ishologu (Fiyah Issue 9)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Osborne, <a href=\"https:\/\/uncannymagazine.com\/article\/the-dead-in-their-uncontrollable-power\/\">The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power<\/a> (Uncanny)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Payseur, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com\/stories\/undercurrents\/\">Undercurrents<\/a> (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nibedita Sen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightmare-magazine.com\/fiction\/ten-excerpts-from-an-annotated-bibliography-on-the-cannibal-women-of-ratnabar-island\/\">Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island<\/a> (Nightmare)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fran Wilde, <a href=\"https:\/\/firesidefiction.com\/the-unseen\">The Unseen<\/a> (Fireside)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xia Jia, Goodnight Melancholy (<em>Broken Stars<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caroline Yoachim, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysciencefiction.com\/hither-and-yon\/sf-fantasy\/caroline-m-yoachim\/a-wedding-gown-of-autumn-leaves\">A Wedding Gown of Autumn Leaves<\/a> (Daily Science Fiction)<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a big chunk of time when I just wasn&#8217;t reading short stories much, and when I asked for recommendations from that time I got very little. So as usual, please, if there&#8217;s stuff you&#8217;ve been enjoying, give me links in the comments. (And while it&#8217;s fine to link to stuff from 2018 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-short-story-glory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}