Status Updates From Explaining Cthulhu to Grand...

I wasn't expecting so many micro stories but most are quite impressive

The Getaway - Written in a very funny manner. Not SFF though!

Those Who Can't Do - Aww, the poor artist.

Number Station - Welp, that's not horrifying.

How to Locate and Capture Time Travelers: A Memo - I like the author's tongue-in-cheek attitude here.

Chill - Dude, just chill.

Tales of the Elopus - 14 pieces of flash fiction around the same three phrases.

An Indelible Feast - Hilarious! Kosher pig, haha.

The Storyteller - Scheherazade, take 1. Add OCD.

One Thousand and First - Scheherazade, take 2. Quite clever.

Manna from Heaven - Amusing.

On the Last Afternoon - Bittersweet.

Time Away - That's certainly one way to write that character.

Pel's Crusade - Quite amusing.

A Better Tomorrow - A Martian journey/thriller.

Hunger - Yeti!

A Tear in the Web - Mind your own business! LOL.

The Traveling Fair - Kind of weak, but foolish king figures it out.

The Last Incantation - Rather sweet of all these wizards

The Skeptic - I liked the twist here.

Good Advice - Heh, it was fine.

In Service of a Greater Cause - Don't like this lady at all.

The Sgovari Strategem - Sequel to the xenoarcheology story.

A Gnomish Gift - A fairy-tale retelling.

Coffee in End Times - Coffee's a killer.

The Hourglass Brigade - Time's a killer.

A One-Sided Argument - Aliens are killers.

How Earth Narrowly Escaped an Invasion from Space - A fantastic cats-in-space story.

Fate and Other Variables - This was great!

OK, that ends the official 40 stories of this book, now onto the bonus content. :D

Putting It All Together - Let there be light.

Dominoes Falling - It's hard to fault his obsession.

Notes on the Game in Progress, Played Almost to a Draw - I liked this one a bunch.

Small Magics - Perspectives.

Icarus Falls - Aww. This was great.

True Love - A cute time travel story.

You Bet - Some tropes play poker.

The Far Side of the Wilderness - Moses in space, sort of.

Worldbuilding - I like the way he makes fun of SF tropes here.

In the Wake of the Storm - Post-Hurricane Sandy, two people struggle to help.

Ravages of Time - Bittersweet story involving time dilation.

Price of Allegiance - The author's take on a golden age sci-fi story, good, though I wonder if he's read James White?

The Tell-Tale Ear - Amusing story about someone getting a taste of their own medicine.

The Miracle on Tau Prime - I liked this one, though it ended darkly.

The Tinker Bell Problem - Now this was funny, a demon summoned a human for help.

Life at the Lake's Shore - This one has a rather ambiguous speculative content, but is certainly a tragic tale.

The Take - Trying to sell some experiences.

The Dragon Ships of Tycho - A fun little alien mystery about trying to get some allies for the shitty humans.

A Brief Respite from Eternity - Posthuman weirdness.

A Thousand Cuts - TW for cutting.

Seven Conversations in Locked Rooms - The author is giving me a lot more bittersweetness than I was expecting.

High-Tech Fairies and the Pandora Perplexity - A fun sequel to the first Magic Pawn Shop story.

The Keepsake Box - Haha, nice ending.

The Field Trip - Xenoarcheology is fun!

Superior Firepower - Amusing.

The Epistolary History - A series of letters that get more ridiculous over time.

A Shard Glows in Brooklyn - Conrad Brent of the Watch. Interesting first story.

Requiem for a Druid - Another Conrad Brent story--good except for the Trump references which have aged horribly.

Nuclear Family - Ouch, Alex, ouch.

Bedtime Story on Christmas Eve, 1,000,000 AD - I liked this look at a future bedtime story.

Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma - A very amusing story about a pawn shop.

The Rumination on What Isn't - It's a bit slow to start, but this was good.

Doubt - I felt I could see he'd be screwed a mile away, but not too bad.

Spidersong - Spiders are creepy. So are kids.

Things We Leave Behind - Beautiful. I miss my dad, too.

A literal "As you know, Bob…"!