Recent Short SFF Reading

[forestofglory]

Capricious: The Gender Diverse Pronouns Issue I really enjoyed this special issue of Capricious. I hadn't heard of this zine before but this issue was great it was fun to see a lot of different takes on gender diverse pronouns form society with many many pronouns and that normal to characters in our times trying out new identities. I liked that many of these stories where small scale and domestic -- one of my favorite types of fiction. Also the author interviews here are fun and insightful I need to look up some of the suggested reading. And Capricious has the most adorable hedgehog page break symbols. I hadn't heard of Capricious before this special issue but I'm going to keep an eye on it form now on.

Since I last wrote a short fiction rec post Marissa Lingen has published two new stories. They are both great of course. The first one is "Lines of Growth, Lines of Passage about a sorcerer who finds that someone has encased her in a cherry tree. I loved the description of being inside a tree and how the tree helps the sorcerer learn new things. The second story is "Flow". This one made me cry buckets but I still loved it. Its about disability and loss, but my favorite bit is how it addresses troupes about caring for each other and care taking.

I also wanted to mention "Four-Point Affective Calibration" by Bogi Takács I don't always like stories told in non-traditional fro mats, but I like this one which is the screening transcripts of person who wants to take part in project to talk to aliens.

Have you read any short fiction you enjoyed recently?

Comments

[mrissa]

Thank you for your kind words and also for your recommendations of things I haven't read yet.