Summer is all but over, and I am back in front of the keyboard. Well, not that I was ever really gone, but my summer break from the short story recommendations is over. So here they are, my August recommendations. Over My Bones by Dana Vickerson (Apex) This is a very, very short piece, like … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – August 2026
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Short Story Recommendations – March 2026
Love Letter by George Saunders (The New Yorker) I listened to this story in the The New Yorker Fiction Podcast where it was read by David Sedaris, and I must admit that Sedaris' excellent narration of the story might also have affected how I feel about the story. Still, as Sedaris also mentions in his … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – March 2026
Story Recommendations – February 2023
Welcome to the 2023 Februrary short story recommendations. This month's recommendation are based on what I managed to read/listen to by the awesome science fiction and fantasy publishers of Apex, Podcastle, Analog, Lightspeed, StarShipSofa, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Uncanny Magazine. There is no magazine in particular who caught my attention this month. However, there is … Continue reading Story Recommendations – February 2023
Story Recommendations – November 2022
So... In October, I pretty much promised that this month's recommendations would include a bunch of Daily Science Fiction stories. Instead--and I'm not really sure why--I ended up reading far more broadly than I had planned. I continued my journey down the rabbit hole that is Uncanny's backlog and returned to reading old, neglected favorites … Continue reading Story Recommendations – November 2022
