First read: 11.10.10

I couldn't tell you exactly why, because neither the topic nor the character were particularly my thing but I ran across a book with this story in Oxfam and I sat down and I read its 12.500 words (40 pages) in one go. The author's voice is just so detached that it makes you want to find something to feel about. I'm just going ( Read more... )

First read: 19.06.10

7000 words. This was my favourite of the anthology (which I didn't read all of), in here vampirism is spreading like a plague thanks to this one vampire who ended up believing the romantized version of himself fiction was selling him and decided not to kill his victims, the UK has decided to leave them alone in "Coldtown", a ( Read more... )

First read: 15.06.10

7000 words. I liked the combo of supernatural beings with genetic engineering but it didn't really go anywhere. Also, who the fuck thinks of engineering ethernal life out of vampires? That's the biggest plus!

2010, 2010: short-story in english, book-2010, *author: female, @read in english, #cuento/short-story, +vampires, + ( Read more... )

First read: 13.06.10

6000 words.

2010, 2010: short-story in english, book-2010, *author: female, @read in english, #cuento/short-story, +supernatural, author: Sarah Rees Brennan

First read: 09.06.10

9000 words. Not really a story, mostly the main character is introduced and has a slightly revealing and predictable experience (groupies don't make good girlfriends!). It feels like the first part of a longer story but doesn't really go anywhere on its own.

2010, 2010: short-story in english, book-2010, *author: female, @ ( Read more... )

First read: 04.06.10

What happens to Hansel and Gretel after they escape the witch? Well, for one thing, it takes them a while; for another nobody else understand what they have been through.

2010, 2010: short-story in english, book-2010, *author: female, @read in english, #cuento/short-story, +incest, +fairytale retelling, author: justine ( Read more... )

First read: 26.05.10

2000 words. *spoilers* The fact that Cinderella is a boy doesn't really change much. Except for the whole thing about the princess sneaking out to give out the invites to her own party so as to get a real look at the candidates, which was smart, ok, but still, plot?

2010, 2010: short-story in english, book-2010, *author: ( Read more... )

"World's End Concerto (Eternity Variation in D Major)" by Shinju Yuri (真珠百合) . [original slash] . [N6]

First read:12.01.2010

2000 words

-gay, 2010, 2010: short-story in english, book-2010, cuento/short-story, *author: female, @read in english, -queer literature

First read: 25.01.2010

4000 words. So the story isn't particularly sweet, it's about Alan raising Nick, and how he could infuse him with some human traits but couldn't really change who Nick was and that isn't anything cute and babyish but that doesn't detract from Alan loving him or Nick, with his flawed understanding of humanity, from loving him ( Read more... )

 First read:15.01.2010

3000 words. Nice but a bit disconnected.

-gay, 2010, 2010: short-story in english, book-2010, cuento/short-story, *author: female, @read in english, -queer literature