Non-Grim Short Fiction

[forestofglory]

I had tea with friend yesterday and she was telling me how she was having trouble getting into popular fantasy these days because it was too complex and too grim. So I enthused about short fiction at her. (Maybe I talk about short fiction too much? But most of my in person friends are not aware of how much of it there is online.) Anyways as I result she asked me to come up with a list of non-grim short fiction available for free online. I thought I would share it here as well.

“Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land” by Ruthanna Emrys

“The Contemporary Foxwife” by Yoon Ha Lee

"The Suitcase Aria" by Marissa Lingen

“The Dryad’s Shoe” by T. Kingfisher aka Ursula Vernon (She also has self-published collection of fairy tale re-tellings called Toad Words, but some of those are a bit grim)

“The Bonedrake’s Penance” by Yoon Ha Lee

“The House of Aunts”by Zen Cho She also has collection out called Spirits Abroad which is almost all non-grim (and really good.)

"Astrophilia" by Carrie Vaughn

"The Witches of Athens" by Lara Elena Donnelly. currently my go to comfort story

"Six Months Three Days" by Charlie Jane Anders

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