{"id":857,"date":"2016-07-10T21:47:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T18:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2016-07-10T21:47:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T18:47:01","slug":"sunday-recs-hopeful-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2016\/07\/10\/sunday-recs-hopeful-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday recs: Hopeful fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s been an awful place lately, so I think it&#8217;s a good time to read some hopeful fiction. So here are three such stories:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flashfictiononline.com\/main\/article\/songbird\/\">Songbird<\/a> by Shveta Thakrar (in <em>Flash Fiction Online<\/em>): a gorgeous tale about music and identity, about the freedom to be who you are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldsf.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/20\/tuesday-fiction-prudence-and-the-dragon-by-zen-cho\/\">Prudence and the Dragon<\/a> by Zen Cho (in <em>The World SF Blog<\/em>) this is just so ridic charming! I love Zen Cho&#8217;s writing (I highly recommend her short story collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spirits-Abroad-Zen-Cho\/dp\/9670374987\">Spirits Abroad<\/a>!), and this story is no exception. I love the London-ness of this tale too: so very very London in atmosphere. &#8220;Prudence and the Dragon&#8221; made me laugh out loud several times and is just so warm-hearted. And has a female friendship at its core.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firesidefiction.com\/issue34\/chapter\/iron-aria\/\">Iron Aria<\/a> by A. Merc Rustad (in <em>Fireside Fiction<\/em>): what a wonderful, hopeful secondary-world fantasy story! I love how well Merc handles all the intersections of identity in this. The worldbuilding is fascinating (and so rich for a short story) and the characters really come alive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s been an awful place lately, so I think it&#8217;s a good time to read some hopeful fiction. So here are three such stories: Songbird by Shveta Thakrar (in Flash Fiction Online): a gorgeous tale about music and identity, about the freedom to be who you are. Prudence and the Dragon by Zen Cho [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,30,19],"tags":[161,197,201,31,158,203,177],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash-fiction","category-linkage","category-short-stories","tag-a-merc-rustad","tag-fireside-fiction","tag-flash-fiction-online","tag-recs","tag-shveta-thakrar","tag-world-sf-blog","tag-zen-cho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}