A mish-mosh of stories from different sources:

314. READING LIST by Seanan McGuire, from the anthology Temporally Out of Order.   A cute story about a library room having "causality problems" that rewrite Meg Halprin's life, for the better, each time she enters.

315. PLEASE DO NOT TAUNT THE OCTOPUS by Mira Grant, a stand-alone e-book, part of the ( Read more... )

Okay, so at this point I'm facing the reality that with 4 days left in the year and company coming in just about 36 hours, I am not going to catch up on detailed short story reviews. But as I want my own entries in this community to be a complete record of what I've read each year, I'm going to use this catch-up post to bring me up to the end of ( Read more... )

All of the following can be found in NAKED CITY, an urban fantasy anthology edited by ellen_datlow and published by St. Martin's Griffin.

108. Curses by Jim Butcher   This is perhaps one of the most light-hearted Harry Dresden tales to see print in the past few years. As the novels have grown darker  (not humorless, but darker), the short stories have somewhat ( Read more... )

I'm back!  I've been juggling too many balls the past few months -- reading short stories has suffered, and thus so has my attention to this community.  I'm going to use this as a catch-up post, so my thoughts may not be as in-depth as usual, but hopefully this will get me back on the horse!

All of the following stories are from TEETH: Vampire Tales ( Read more... )

I am way behind on my reviews, and not likely to find the time to do in-depth thoughts any time soon, so I thought I'd at least do a quick "final round-up."

353. Cries Beneath the Plaster by Steve Berman from TRYSTS. I somehow left this one out when I reviewed the book a few months back.

354. Love Hurts by Jim Butcher, from SIDE JOBS: Tales of ( Read more... )

Beginning my reviews of the stories in The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People, edited by ellen_datlow and Terri Windling.  I've already posted reviews of two stories, as well as the opening essay, here and here.  I'm about halfway through the anthology now and almost every story (and even the poems) work for me.  I think I've discovered what makes Ellen ( Read more... )

This batch is from The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

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I read these more than a week ago, but just have not taken the time to post them.  They all come from the April 2008 issue of Realms of Fantasy magazine:

#64: Gift From a Spring by Delia Sherman.  This was a sweet story.  An artist from England, feeling out of sorts and disconnected from her art, agrees to take a job as a bookkeeper for an arts ( Read more... )

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