{"id":834,"date":"2016-05-08T21:22:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T18:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2016-05-08T21:22:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T18:22:59","slug":"sunday-recs-hungry-daughters-of-starving-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2016\/05\/08\/sunday-recs-hungry-daughters-of-starving-mothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday recs: Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no rec on the blog &#8211; I&#8217;ve been posting occasional recs on Twitter, but this blog has been quiet. <\/p>\n<p>But now &#8212; it&#8217;s Mothers&#8217; Day in Finland, and how better to celebrate than by recommending a creepy story? <\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Wong&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightmare-magazine.com\/fiction\/hungry-daughters-of-starving-mothers\/\">Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers<\/a> (in <em>Nightmare Magazine<\/em>, originally published in the <em>Queers Destroy Horror!<\/em> special issue) is an amazing, disturbing story. I don&#8217;t usually go for horror, but this story just really works, gave me the chills. The interpersonal relationships (including a mother-daughter relationship) are essential in this. And what a great ending!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers&#8221; is also a Nebula, Shirley Jackson, Bram Stoker and Locus Award finalist, so go and read it now if you haven&#8217;t already! Alyssa is also (well-deservedly) a finalist for the 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no rec on the blog &#8211; I&#8217;ve been posting occasional recs on Twitter, but this blog has been quiet. But now &#8212; it&#8217;s Mothers&#8217; Day in Finland, and how better to celebrate than by recommending a creepy story? Alyssa Wong&#8217;s Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (in Nightmare Magazine, originally published in the Queers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,19],"tags":[195,200,31],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage","category-short-stories","tag-alyssa-wong","tag-nightmare-magazine","tag-recs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}