Year Five: 2023

by Jodi Christensen (Editor), Jessica Gleason (Contributor), F. Malanoche (Contributor)

The Black Hare Press YEAR FIVE anthology is a culmination of all the nano-tales published in the Dark Moments online archive, and all the tales published on Patreon during 2023.

As a champion of emerging writers, you'll always find works by debut authors in our publications, as well new pieces from established and best-selling authors. We hope you enjoy the hard work that has been put into these tiny tales.

492 pages, Paperback

First published December 9, 2023

Reviews

[Jessica Gleason · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bravo, everyone! This was a wonderful year of darkness and drabbles.

[R.A. Goli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Because it’s a ‘best of’ for the year, the stories might seem mismatched as the calls for submission were quite varied - both by theme and length. Stories ranged from good, clever, excellent, to the ridiculous.
Overall, it’s a decent anthology, and though probably not one of Black Hare Press’ best, it’s a good length so I feel you get value for money. I found this one hard to rate because there were so many stories I loved, and it seemed like an equal number I disliked, so I’m gonna go with 3 1/2.

*Disclaimer: I have a short story in this anthology.

[Sam Brown]

I wrote a story for this one! It wasn't the best story, or the smartest, or the funniest, or the scariest, but... uh... um... check it out!

[N. E. Rule · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's fun to read this a few stories at a time. Many I remember from when they were posted online. My favourite series was the Lemmings. And my favourite story was The Hike by Leigh Kenny. My story is on page 131 "Fluid Illustration" Not my favourite. But different.