Right. I've been neglecting this for way too long now. I'm not going to bore you with how life sometimes gets busy and time seems like the Roadrunner leaving you all to aware that you're Wile E. Coyote with no control of what's going on despite your best efforts. Suffice to say that today's post … Continue reading 2019.04.08 – Short Story Recommendations
Category: Story Recommendations
2019.02.01 – Story Recommendations
My focus the last couple of weeks has been on finishing my Daily Science Fiction backlog, which I did today (yeah!), finishing the Intergalactic Medicine Show anthology, going through a bunch of Anton Checkov stories, and reading stories from relatively new flash fiction magazine (as in it's only just over a year old as far … Continue reading 2019.02.01 – Story Recommendations
Short Story Recommendations – 2019.01.07
All right. It's 2019 and the year's first short story recommendations are long overdue. I'm still catching on the Daily Science Fiction backlog in my inbox, which is definitely showing. But that doesn't make today's recommendation any less deserving. These Fine Vistas by Sandra McDonald (DSF): The story was mostly just okay. Solid sentence level … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – 2019.01.07
Story Recommendations – 2018.11.30
Wow, time has flown by and it's been way too long since I posted any short story recommendations (or anything else for that matter). So without further delay, here they are. In the End the World Will Break Your Heart by Kurt Hunt (DSF): An excellent story about the end of the world. What set … Continue reading Story Recommendations – 2018.11.30
Story Recommendations: 2018.11.11
I turned to catching up on my Daily Science Fiction (DSF) backlog this week, so they once again wheigh heavy on the list. As alway, any suggestions of your own are welcome in the comments. The Future of Parenting by Jules Jensen (DSF): The story puts a new twist on the familiar trope of a … Continue reading Story Recommendations: 2018.11.11
Short Story Recommendations 2018.11.04
The weekly short story recommendations are long overdue (more than a week), so here they are even though I don't have as many stories to recommend as I would like. This is despite having read quite a fair deal of short stories the last couple of weeks and from a wider variety of magazines than … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations 2018.11.04
Short Story Recommendations – 2018.10.13
Though I still have a long backlog of DSF stories I need to catch up with after my vacation, I did decide to go outside my usual magazines in the hunt for great short stories this week. Memory Foam by Forrest Brazeal (DSF): This story is by no means a masterpiece, but it shows that … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – 2018.10.13
Short Story Recommendations: 2018.10.05
Once again, a week that is dominated by stories from Daily Science Fiction; I'm still catching up on the backlog of stories I have in my inbox from them since I went on vacation. To the Editor: Monsters belong in schools by Zella Christensen (DSF): A funny piece that plays of familiar fantasy tropes and … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations: 2018.10.05
Short Story Recommendations – 2018.09.24
The App by Dustin J Davis (DSF): The sentence level writing is okay, the characterization pretty good considering the limited work count, but it's the treatment of theme that really pulls this story up above average. The story highlights what's it like to live in the probably not too distant future where highly realistic video-editing … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – 2018.09.24
Short Story Recommendations – 2018.08.03
Unfortunately, I only have two story recommendations for you today. This is partly due to me having read mostly novels and stuff from my writing group the last week or so, and partly because I've been unlucky and the stories I did chose to read (many of them being okay but not exactly great). Luckily, … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – 2018.08.03
Toby Backman 