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Seanan McGuire
515 books17.2k followersHi! I'm Seanan McGuire, author of the Toby Daye series (Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Late Eclipses), as well as a lot of other things. I'm also Mira Grant (www.miragrant.com), author of Feed and Deadline.
Born and raised in Northern California, I fear weather and am remarkably laid-back about rattlesnakes. I watch too many horror movies, read too many comic books, and share my house with two monsters in feline form, Lilly and Alice (Siamese and Maine Coon).
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Born and raised in Northern California, I fear weather and am remarkably laid-back about rattlesnakes. I watch too many horror movies, read too many comic books, and share my house with two monsters in feline form, Lilly and Alice (Siamese and Maine Coon).
I do not check this inbox. Please don't send me messages through Goodreads; they won't be answered. I don't want to have to delete this account. :(
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November 3, 2021
SPOOKTOBER "DAY THREE"
some months ago, i decided that, for spooktober, i would do a version of my december short story advent calendar project in order to take advantage of the wealth of free horror audio shorts available courtesy of nightfire. and then i forgot about this plan. so i'm going to backtrack a bit here now and pretend i've been doing it all along for these past five days and then settle into a one-a-day listen. so bear with me as i catch up. i probably won't be doing too extensive a review on any of these, but i'll at least provide some links and you can check them out yourselves!
31 minutes
a real downer of a story without any of seanan mcguire's/mira grant's signature humor to offset it this time. the world ends while a plane takes off and the passengers do not take it well. our narrator, whose profession has prepared her for this situation, has the enviable luxury of a quiet resignation to her fate, and a grim-but-better-than-the-alternative plan. this sure was a bleak half hour of my day! still, her writing makes it well worth the despair.
listen to it here:
https://play.google.com/books/listen?...
THE STORIES:
OCTOBER 1: 57 REASONS FOR THE SLATE QUARRY SUICIDES - SAM J. MILLER
OCTOBER 2: SOME BREAKABLE THINGS - CASSANDRA KHAW
OCTOBER 4: THE CHANGELING - SARAH LANGAN
OCTOBER 5: THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH, THE MADNESS OF MEN - BROOKE BOLANDER
OCTOBER 6: THE FIREPLACE - CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN
OCTOBER 7: BONE - TADE THOMPSON
OCTOBER 8: IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING - MOLLY TANZER
OCTOBER 9: DREAM HOME - KAT HOWARD
OCTOBER 10: SPAWNING SEASON - NICHOLAS KAUFMANN
OCTOBER 11: THE GIRLS FROM THE HORROR MOVIE - GWENDOLYN KISTE
OCTOBER 12: IT WASHED UP - JOE R. LANSDALE
OCTOBER 13: BLACK NEUROLOGY - RICHARD KADREY
OCTOBER 14: WHEN THE ZOMBIES WIN - KARINA SUMNER-SMITH
OCTOBER 15: WASP & SNAKE - LIVIA LLEWELLYN
OCTOBER 16: THIS GUY - CHUCK WENDIG
OCTOBER 17: THE POND - PAUL TREMBLAY
OCTOBER 18: A LIFE THAT IS NOT MINE - KRISTI DEMEESTER
OCTOBER 19: GREENER PASTURES - MICHAEL WEHUNT
OCTOBER 20: THAT WHICH DOES NOT KILL YOU - LUCY A. SNYDER
OCTOBER 21: COLD, SILENT, AND DARK - KARY ENGLISH
OCTOBER 22: WAS SHE WICKED? WAS SHE GOOD? - M. RICKERT
OCTOBER 23: THE DAYS OF FLAMING MOTORCYCLES - CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
OCTOBER 24: FLAYED ED - RICHARD KADREY
OCTOBER 25: MAMA TULU - JESSICA GUESS
OCTOBER 26: THE VAULT OF THE SKY, THE FACE OF THE DEEP
OCTOBER 27: EL CHARRO - JOHN LANGAN
OCTOBER 28: STANDING WATER - CAITLIN R. KIERNAN
OCTOBER 29: MIDNIGHT CALLER - STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES
OCTOBER 30: TOOTH, TONGUE, AND CLAW - DAMIEN ANGELICA WALTERS
OCTOBER 31: THE QUIET BOY - NICK ANTOSCA
come to my blog!
some months ago, i decided that, for spooktober, i would do a version of my december short story advent calendar project in order to take advantage of the wealth of free horror audio shorts available courtesy of nightfire. and then i forgot about this plan. so i'm going to backtrack a bit here now and pretend i've been doing it all along for these past five days and then settle into a one-a-day listen. so bear with me as i catch up. i probably won't be doing too extensive a review on any of these, but i'll at least provide some links and you can check them out yourselves!
31 minutes
a real downer of a story without any of seanan mcguire's/mira grant's signature humor to offset it this time. the world ends while a plane takes off and the passengers do not take it well. our narrator, whose profession has prepared her for this situation, has the enviable luxury of a quiet resignation to her fate, and a grim-but-better-than-the-alternative plan. this sure was a bleak half hour of my day! still, her writing makes it well worth the despair.
listen to it here:
https://play.google.com/books/listen?...
THE STORIES:
OCTOBER 1: 57 REASONS FOR THE SLATE QUARRY SUICIDES - SAM J. MILLER
OCTOBER 2: SOME BREAKABLE THINGS - CASSANDRA KHAW
OCTOBER 4: THE CHANGELING - SARAH LANGAN
OCTOBER 5: THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH, THE MADNESS OF MEN - BROOKE BOLANDER
OCTOBER 6: THE FIREPLACE - CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN
OCTOBER 7: BONE - TADE THOMPSON
OCTOBER 8: IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING - MOLLY TANZER
OCTOBER 9: DREAM HOME - KAT HOWARD
OCTOBER 10: SPAWNING SEASON - NICHOLAS KAUFMANN
OCTOBER 11: THE GIRLS FROM THE HORROR MOVIE - GWENDOLYN KISTE
OCTOBER 12: IT WASHED UP - JOE R. LANSDALE
OCTOBER 13: BLACK NEUROLOGY - RICHARD KADREY
OCTOBER 14: WHEN THE ZOMBIES WIN - KARINA SUMNER-SMITH
OCTOBER 15: WASP & SNAKE - LIVIA LLEWELLYN
OCTOBER 16: THIS GUY - CHUCK WENDIG
OCTOBER 17: THE POND - PAUL TREMBLAY
OCTOBER 18: A LIFE THAT IS NOT MINE - KRISTI DEMEESTER
OCTOBER 19: GREENER PASTURES - MICHAEL WEHUNT
OCTOBER 20: THAT WHICH DOES NOT KILL YOU - LUCY A. SNYDER
OCTOBER 21: COLD, SILENT, AND DARK - KARY ENGLISH
OCTOBER 22: WAS SHE WICKED? WAS SHE GOOD? - M. RICKERT
OCTOBER 23: THE DAYS OF FLAMING MOTORCYCLES - CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
OCTOBER 24: FLAYED ED - RICHARD KADREY
OCTOBER 25: MAMA TULU - JESSICA GUESS
OCTOBER 26: THE VAULT OF THE SKY, THE FACE OF THE DEEP
OCTOBER 27: EL CHARRO - JOHN LANGAN
OCTOBER 28: STANDING WATER - CAITLIN R. KIERNAN
OCTOBER 29: MIDNIGHT CALLER - STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES
OCTOBER 30: TOOTH, TONGUE, AND CLAW - DAMIEN ANGELICA WALTERS
OCTOBER 31: THE QUIET BOY - NICK ANTOSCA
come to my blog!
January 14, 2023
Interesting short story about the end of humanity. Imagine being stuck in the sky on a plane full of panicked people when the world ends...
November 9, 2022
Star Rating: —> 5 Stars
I’m listening to the free collection of horror shorts audiobooks from the Tor Nightfire website and am SO FREAKING GRATEFUL I STUMBLED ACROSS THESE SHORT STORIES! I literally HAD to leave an actual review for Seanan McGuire’s story because it was SO. EXCELLENT. I love everything the woman writes; she’s a damn mastermind! Not to mention the WONDERFUL, INCREDIBLE narrator paired with is fantastic author is none other than the FABULOUS NATALIE NAUDUS who did a freaking amazing job with the narration, and she truly elevates any story she narrates! Woohoo! I loved it all in all, obvs!
I’m listening to the free collection of horror shorts audiobooks from the Tor Nightfire website and am SO FREAKING GRATEFUL I STUMBLED ACROSS THESE SHORT STORIES! I literally HAD to leave an actual review for Seanan McGuire’s story because it was SO. EXCELLENT. I love everything the woman writes; she’s a damn mastermind! Not to mention the WONDERFUL, INCREDIBLE narrator paired with is fantastic author is none other than the FABULOUS NATALIE NAUDUS who did a freaking amazing job with the narration, and she truly elevates any story she narrates! Woohoo! I loved it all in all, obvs!
March 3, 2022
dios mio sajfhkds el final
No es de sus mejores relatos pero el final es buenísimo.
3,5
Lo pueden escuchar en Spotify
No es de sus mejores relatos pero el final es buenísimo.
3,5
Lo pueden escuchar en Spotify
August 30, 2021
Good fairy stories, dreary ruin stories, and a John Hughes movie
I will begin by clarifying what I am reviewing here. Seanan McGuire has a Patreon Creator page. Patreon is a website where artists can share their work with subscribers. Subscribers pay a certain amount (usually monthly, but that varies from artist to artist), and in return get access to things ("rewards" in Patreon-speak) that the artist posts on Patreon. "Things" can mean images, videos, or (most relevantly in this case) eBooks. Typically there are multiple reward tiers -- the more you pay, the more you get. McGuire set up her Patreon page in June 2016 and has posted a story every month since then, which makes 63 now (August 2021, when I am writing this), plus a few one-time extras. These "stories" can be pretty substantial literary works. For instance, the reward for July 2021 was a short novel. The way Patreon works, if you subscribe to a tier, you typically get access to everything that was posted for that tier at any time in the past. (In principle an artist could delete past rewards to prevent subscribers from gaming the system, but few of them do that. And in fact, this is a great way to lure in new subscribers. I subscribed in June at the CAD 1.50 level (CAD=Canadian dollar) and in this way immediately got 61 stories.) Most of the stories are posted in MOBI, ePub, and PDF form. MOBI files can be converted for reading on Amazon kindle, and that is how I have read most of these.
I started reading McGuire not long ago after stumbling on Discount Armageddon, the first book in the Incryptid Series. The Incryptid Series consists mainly of novels: ten currently published, with the eleventh due out in March 2022. Although McGuire has a stated intention of making the novels stand on their own, she has also released many Incryptid stories separately. The Incryptid Short Stories page on her web site lists about two dozen of these, some published in anthologies but most available free for download (completely free -- no subscription required). This list does not include the Patreon stories. In addition to the Incryptid Series, McGuire is best known for another series, October Daye. She also has a page of October Daye short stories on her web site.
I have read the first eight novels of the Incryptid series (that is, through That Ain’t Witchcraft) and all the Incryptid short stories listed on McGuire's web site Incryptid Short Stories and the 25 stories posted in her first two years on Patreon (June 2016 - May 2018). I will assume you have, too, in the sense that this review may include spoilers for those works. Aside from Patreon stories, I have not read any October Daye works, so you're fairly safe from spoilers on those. I will try to avoid spoilers for the works I am reviewing here, which are the 12 works McGuire posted in her third year on Patreon. These are:
Jealous in Honor (Tybalt #7), June 2018 Patreon reward
Harvest, July 2018 Patreon reward
Quick in Quarrel (Tybalt #8), August 2018 Patreon reward
File and Forget, September 2018 Patreon reward
The Ambitious Ocean (Patrick #5), October 2018 Patreon reward
Love in the Last Days of a Doomed World, November 2018 Patreon reward
And Thrice Again (Simon #1), December 2018 Patreon reward
Sweet as Sugar Candy, January 2019 Patreon reward
On The Side, February 2019 Patreon reward
Emergency Landing, March 2019 Patreon reward
Of Strange Oaths (Tybalt #9), April 2019 Patreon reward
Vegetables and Vaccines, May 2019 Patreon reward
We have here five stories from the October Daye continuity -- those would be the three Tybalt stories, the Simon story, and the Patrick story. These were better than I expected. In previous Patreon stories I didn't like Tybalt. He's a pompous, wordy a--hole. But the Year 3 Tybalt stories are better. They recount the momentous consequences of actions Tybalt took in Patreon Year 2 stories. They are well plotted and left me intrigued to learn what happens next.
That leaves us (among the October Daye stories) with the Simon and Patrick stories. I like Patrick a lot, he and his mermaid love Dianda are charming in an unassuming way -- they're just good people, even if they are fairy nobility. In The Ambitious Ocean Patrick walks knowingly into danger to defend his right to court Dianda. He bites off more than he can chew but is rescued by friends. One of those friends, Simon Torquill, is the subject of And Thrice Again. This story was a little surprising to me. I had previously known Simon only as Patrick's easy-going friend. Patrick thinks of Simon as a slacker. In this story we see a much more serious, high-stakes side to Simon. (Perhaps this would be less surprising to someone who had read the October Daye books, which, I gather, are centered on the Torquill family.) So that was good.
Then we have what I will call "ruin stories". When she released Sweet as Sugar Candy, McGuire explained, "Sometimes I ask my friends what they want me to ruin for my patrons. This month, my friend Carrie said 'please ruin marshmallows.'" There are three more ruin stories in this batch: On The Side, Emergency Landing, Vegetables and Vaccines. Also, although she explains them differently, Love in the Last Days of a Doomed World and File and Forget feel like ruin stories. So that makes six. The ruin stories are mostly about about a sort of apocalypse -- a future where something connected with the thing to be ruined has gone badly wrong. These are very on-brand for McGuire. She is not a safe writer -- you can't count on happy endings, or on the people you love surviving intact. Alas, I can't say I really enjoy the ruin stories so much. Too often they are just gray and dreary. In this collection several of the ruin stories (I won't say which ones) have sort-of happy endings. (Under a very generous understanding of "happy ending".)
That leaves us with Harvest. Harvest is ostensibly a story about fairies, but not really. Really, it's a John Hughes movie in short story form, and is about a high-school dance. The high-school student characters happen to be mostly fairies, but that is not really important. Like a John Hughes movie, it's a fun story about kids finding love (or some acceptable facsimile). I certainly enjoyed it.
I will begin by clarifying what I am reviewing here. Seanan McGuire has a Patreon Creator page. Patreon is a website where artists can share their work with subscribers. Subscribers pay a certain amount (usually monthly, but that varies from artist to artist), and in return get access to things ("rewards" in Patreon-speak) that the artist posts on Patreon. "Things" can mean images, videos, or (most relevantly in this case) eBooks. Typically there are multiple reward tiers -- the more you pay, the more you get. McGuire set up her Patreon page in June 2016 and has posted a story every month since then, which makes 63 now (August 2021, when I am writing this), plus a few one-time extras. These "stories" can be pretty substantial literary works. For instance, the reward for July 2021 was a short novel. The way Patreon works, if you subscribe to a tier, you typically get access to everything that was posted for that tier at any time in the past. (In principle an artist could delete past rewards to prevent subscribers from gaming the system, but few of them do that. And in fact, this is a great way to lure in new subscribers. I subscribed in June at the CAD 1.50 level (CAD=Canadian dollar) and in this way immediately got 61 stories.) Most of the stories are posted in MOBI, ePub, and PDF form. MOBI files can be converted for reading on Amazon kindle, and that is how I have read most of these.
I started reading McGuire not long ago after stumbling on Discount Armageddon, the first book in the Incryptid Series. The Incryptid Series consists mainly of novels: ten currently published, with the eleventh due out in March 2022. Although McGuire has a stated intention of making the novels stand on their own, she has also released many Incryptid stories separately. The Incryptid Short Stories page on her web site lists about two dozen of these, some published in anthologies but most available free for download (completely free -- no subscription required). This list does not include the Patreon stories. In addition to the Incryptid Series, McGuire is best known for another series, October Daye. She also has a page of October Daye short stories on her web site.
I have read the first eight novels of the Incryptid series (that is, through That Ain’t Witchcraft) and all the Incryptid short stories listed on McGuire's web site Incryptid Short Stories and the 25 stories posted in her first two years on Patreon (June 2016 - May 2018). I will assume you have, too, in the sense that this review may include spoilers for those works. Aside from Patreon stories, I have not read any October Daye works, so you're fairly safe from spoilers on those. I will try to avoid spoilers for the works I am reviewing here, which are the 12 works McGuire posted in her third year on Patreon. These are:
Jealous in Honor (Tybalt #7), June 2018 Patreon reward
Harvest, July 2018 Patreon reward
Quick in Quarrel (Tybalt #8), August 2018 Patreon reward
File and Forget, September 2018 Patreon reward
The Ambitious Ocean (Patrick #5), October 2018 Patreon reward
Love in the Last Days of a Doomed World, November 2018 Patreon reward
And Thrice Again (Simon #1), December 2018 Patreon reward
Sweet as Sugar Candy, January 2019 Patreon reward
On The Side, February 2019 Patreon reward
Emergency Landing, March 2019 Patreon reward
Of Strange Oaths (Tybalt #9), April 2019 Patreon reward
Vegetables and Vaccines, May 2019 Patreon reward
We have here five stories from the October Daye continuity -- those would be the three Tybalt stories, the Simon story, and the Patrick story. These were better than I expected. In previous Patreon stories I didn't like Tybalt. He's a pompous, wordy a--hole. But the Year 3 Tybalt stories are better. They recount the momentous consequences of actions Tybalt took in Patreon Year 2 stories. They are well plotted and left me intrigued to learn what happens next.
That leaves us (among the October Daye stories) with the Simon and Patrick stories. I like Patrick a lot, he and his mermaid love Dianda are charming in an unassuming way -- they're just good people, even if they are fairy nobility. In The Ambitious Ocean Patrick walks knowingly into danger to defend his right to court Dianda. He bites off more than he can chew but is rescued by friends. One of those friends, Simon Torquill, is the subject of And Thrice Again. This story was a little surprising to me. I had previously known Simon only as Patrick's easy-going friend. Patrick thinks of Simon as a slacker. In this story we see a much more serious, high-stakes side to Simon. (Perhaps this would be less surprising to someone who had read the October Daye books, which, I gather, are centered on the Torquill family.) So that was good.
Then we have what I will call "ruin stories". When she released Sweet as Sugar Candy, McGuire explained, "Sometimes I ask my friends what they want me to ruin for my patrons. This month, my friend Carrie said 'please ruin marshmallows.'" There are three more ruin stories in this batch: On The Side, Emergency Landing, Vegetables and Vaccines. Also, although she explains them differently, Love in the Last Days of a Doomed World and File and Forget feel like ruin stories. So that makes six. The ruin stories are mostly about about a sort of apocalypse -- a future where something connected with the thing to be ruined has gone badly wrong. These are very on-brand for McGuire. She is not a safe writer -- you can't count on happy endings, or on the people you love surviving intact. Alas, I can't say I really enjoy the ruin stories so much. Too often they are just gray and dreary. In this collection several of the ruin stories (I won't say which ones) have sort-of happy endings. (Under a very generous understanding of "happy ending".)
That leaves us with Harvest. Harvest is ostensibly a story about fairies, but not really. Really, it's a John Hughes movie in short story form, and is about a high-school dance. The high-school student characters happen to be mostly fairies, but that is not really important. Like a John Hughes movie, it's a fun story about kids finding love (or some acceptable facsimile). I certainly enjoyed it.
December 26, 2021
Caitlin Wilson is a scientist, an epidemiologist, who, in the current situation, is glad to be able to say that she doesn't actually work for the government. She's a consultant. This doesn't help as much as she'd like.
What is the current situation? She traveling on business, this time flying out of the Atlanta airport. They've just taken off when she sees some flashes of light and feels what a less observant and less informed person would think was merely atmospheric disturbance. When Caitlin realizes that it was falling bombs and they were likely the last people to get out of the Atlanta airport, she flags down a flight attendant she knows from previous flights. She recommends that when wifi is turned on, it should be made free to all passengers, because as soon as some people have access to information about what just happened, unequal access is likely to lead to conflict and panic.
When wifi is turned on and she can log into her work Discord account, Caitlin learns it's much worse than she thought. The bombs were just the delivery system for a bioweapon, and it's being delivered much more widely than the worst she had feared.
She's not the only person who knows what's going on, but she's the only one on this plane who understands the ramifications.
Caitlin Wilson is the only person on board who knows how to get the least bad outcome for all the people on this plane.
It's a stark, grim, extremely well-done short story that will have you on the edge of your seat.
This story is currently free to members on Libro.fm, and I am reviewing it voluntarily.
What is the current situation? She traveling on business, this time flying out of the Atlanta airport. They've just taken off when she sees some flashes of light and feels what a less observant and less informed person would think was merely atmospheric disturbance. When Caitlin realizes that it was falling bombs and they were likely the last people to get out of the Atlanta airport, she flags down a flight attendant she knows from previous flights. She recommends that when wifi is turned on, it should be made free to all passengers, because as soon as some people have access to information about what just happened, unequal access is likely to lead to conflict and panic.
When wifi is turned on and she can log into her work Discord account, Caitlin learns it's much worse than she thought. The bombs were just the delivery system for a bioweapon, and it's being delivered much more widely than the worst she had feared.
She's not the only person who knows what's going on, but she's the only one on this plane who understands the ramifications.
Caitlin Wilson is the only person on board who knows how to get the least bad outcome for all the people on this plane.
It's a stark, grim, extremely well-done short story that will have you on the edge of your seat.
This story is currently free to members on Libro.fm, and I am reviewing it voluntarily.
July 26, 2023
Emergency Landing is one of several world-ending stories written by the one and only Seanan McGuire. It's one of her Patreon stories, and isn't afraid to get pretty dark. It also rings differently following the pandemic.
Something awful has happened. The passengers on one flight only had a glimpse of what befell their city – then they were up in the clouds, away from it all. What is happening on the ground, and how will they respond to the truth?
Ouch. This one hurts. I strongly urge you against reading this if pandemics and gloomier stories are not your cup of tea. That said, Emergency Landing is well written (as always), so I'm not complaining here. Merely warning.
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Something awful has happened. The passengers on one flight only had a glimpse of what befell their city – then they were up in the clouds, away from it all. What is happening on the ground, and how will they respond to the truth?
Ouch. This one hurts. I strongly urge you against reading this if pandemics and gloomier stories are not your cup of tea. That said, Emergency Landing is well written (as always), so I'm not complaining here. Merely warning.
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December 29, 2020
Well-written and suitably tense for the situation, though given what the event was, it was hitting a little close to home given that we’re currently living in a pandemic. So it made for a rather uncomfortable read, even though the main character handled the situation with a calmness and level-headed/reasonableness which at times feels sorely lacking in what is actually going on in our world. (Go figure, I can handle the pandemic in Survivor Song just fine, but not this. Maybe because this one is not restricted to a small affected area?)
August 18, 2021
Seanan McGuire really said "Albert Wesker's Uroboros virus, but POV you're that CDC guy from season 1 of The Walking Dead" and made a short story about it. Excellent like all of her horror fiction, but also, my goodness do I have some bad news for doomsday preppers.... 10/10 for doubling down on bleak outlooks in life.
August 23, 2024
An epidemiologist contractor and a BAD situation walk up to a bar
This typically terrific (and pretty terrifying) short story by Seanan McGuire is not at all hard to recommend to fellow fans (especially free and at about a half-hour duration) and I think those who haven’t discovered her work might enjoy this (post-)apocalyptic tale very much too…
This typically terrific (and pretty terrifying) short story by Seanan McGuire is not at all hard to recommend to fellow fans (especially free and at about a half-hour duration) and I think those who haven’t discovered her work might enjoy this (post-)apocalyptic tale very much too…
October 22, 2020
Jeez, Seanan Mcguire! What a gut punch!
Why only 4⭐'s instead of 5⭐'s... This is Not my go-to kind of fiction!
Loved Natalie Naudus delivery of this heart wrenching tale!
This short audio book is currently available free at Google Books play store!
Why only 4⭐'s instead of 5⭐'s... This is Not my go-to kind of fiction!
Loved Natalie Naudus delivery of this heart wrenching tale!
This short audio book is currently available free at Google Books play store!
June 9, 2023
So short and still so powerful!
I am amazed by how good this short story was, I was in the edge of my seat the entire time.
I loved everything about this story, the ending was shocking!
I highly highly recommend this short horror story!
I am amazed by how good this short story was, I was in the edge of my seat the entire time.
I loved everything about this story, the ending was shocking!
I highly highly recommend this short horror story!
October 27, 2023
i don’t know how i felt about this. the story itself was well written (i listened to it) and the narrator did a great job. i just wish they hadn’t included the one minor mention of her dog. made my stomach drop but i guess since its horror that’s what it’s meant to do
December 11, 2024
I was browsing Libro.fm and chanced upon this
free
little short story, and what a find it was! It is a tiny, less-than-one hour listen but it was perfect; narrated by my favourite Natalie Naudus, subtle sound effects that elevate the experience, and fun.
May 9, 2025
Well narrated and well written. I especially liked the part about democratizing information and later when she condemns the entire first class because they didn't do anything to stop the man who attacked her. I also liked that she punched someone and the author did not attempt to end this happily.
September 5, 2019
3.5 stars, very short but not bad at all.
July 13, 2020
Argh. Last people in the world, stuck in a plane. A Patreon story
February 4, 2022
This was really good. This author is always able to pack a lot of emotion in to a short story. The narrator was good also.
April 25, 2022
3 stars
March 23, 2024
4.5 stars
April 4, 2024
I'm already nervous about flying so this didn't really help but it was an interesting story.
June 30, 2024
Pure brilliance. Natalie Naudus 's narration elevates every piece she reads.
June 6, 2025
One of the most terrifying, gut-wrenching things I have ever listened to. I need a Xanax.
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