Just one rec today; I’ve been unreasonably exhausted lately. Green is for Silence, Blue is for Voice, Red is for Whole, Black is for Choice by Damien Angelica Walters, in Daily Science Fiction. This post-apocalyptic vision is beautifully written. I read it a while ago while eating a delicious lunch; for some reason the story […]
Month: March 2014
Sunday recs: Mundanity, elephants, opera and a coffee shop
This week’s Sunday Recs presents four very different stories – all of them awesome. (Well, duh, otherwise I’d hardly be recommending that you read them!) Relentlessly Mundane by Jo Walton. This was published in Strange Horizons 14 years ago, but I only just found it while looking for, like, everything that Jo Walton has written […]
Niteblade Fundraiser 2014
Niteblade is a great fantasy/horror magazine, with an awesome mix of prose and poetry in each issue. And now it’s time for the annual fundraiser. If you want to help Niteblade continue doing its awesome thing, consider donating a few (or more) dollars at the fundraising campaign site here! In addition to feeling good about […]
Sunday recs: Four poems
Poems! I’ve been writing a poem a day for the past week, so today’s recs are poetry too. Tintagel, by Beth Langford (in Goblin Fruit). The language and imagery in this poem are just gorgeous! Tesseract: A Parent’s Guide to Time Travel, by Kimberly Gladman (in Wild Violet). A lovely homage to Madeleine L’Engle’s A […]
Sunday recs: Speculative prose and two issues’-worth of poetry
I was thinking of posting a rant about how difficult writing fiction in Finnish is for me (I was attempting such a thing last night), but I think I’ll go for Sunday recs instead. How my bilingualism comes across in my writing is a topic I want to write a more thoughtful post on. So, […]