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I'm not a huge fan of short stories, I usually end up wanting more but of course, there isn't more - it's not a novel. There were some stories I really enjoyed (Parts by Holly Goddard Jones) and others I didn't care for at all (Skinny Girls' Constitution and Bylaws by Tina May Hall). It's a fine line in a short story -- telling enough the reader knows what's going on, but keeping the story contained. Some did this better than others.
The release date for this book seemed to be delayed for quite awhile--felt like it took ages to finally come out. It was worth the wait. I suspected it would be because I am pretty entrenched in my Richard Thomas fandom at this point. I can think of no better editor. These stories were brilliant and lovely.
Stellar short fiction from some of our finest--and NOT the sort of stories where nothing happens (my personal pet peeve!).
So a funny thing happened to me reading these stories... I kept stopping to share my reactions with someone, like when you're watching a film that's terrifying or melancholy or funny in a way that makes you feel bad for laughing. Then I'd remember - this wasn't a movie I was watching with someone. It was a book I was reading all alone. And I felt as if I would burst, having no one to share this experience with. So I hope more people read this, and they too can be haunted by it.
It feels really difficult to rate this since it’s a short story collection. There were stories that were so fantastic I’m still thinking about them days after the fact and there are others that were so not my taste that I skimmed them after the first page.This Is How It Starts, A Galloping Infection, Stillborn, and They Make of You a Monster were my favorites. Probably unsurprising to anyone who knows me that two of these have fantasy/sci-fi elements. The other two won me over because of how gri...
A beautifully curated collection of diverse stories and storytellers. I hadn't heard of any of these writers before this, but there are more than a few that I am going to look up now. It's great to have a collection that focuses solely on women writers, but this collection is really so much more than that. All these writers have created strong male and female characters with extremely different and distinct points of view. The stories contain commentary on a wide variety of humanistic themes, so...
Not up to the lofty standards of The New Black, but still enjoyable.
