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Finished Beagle’s “La Lune T’Attend” and it was absolutely beautiful and sad.

Read Frost’s “The Bank Job” and it was pretty sweet!

Finished Yarbro’s “and Bob’s your uncle” and it’s immensely sad.

Read Schweitzer’s Kvetchula’s daughter and it was amusing. It’s probably my least fave of the stories so far but that’s not bad because the book has been so amazing.

I read: Report from the near future: Crystallization by David Gerrold.
The experts say it can’t happen, the Republican Congress protects corporate interests, outraging millions of citizens regarding lost coverage (I’m not a fan of act of god clauses in insurance) but also the resilience of many inhabitants who remained, surrounding communities who helped, corporations who helpers like Amtrak etc.

Read Watson’s “Weredog of Bucharest” & Goulart’s “I Was A Middle-Aged Werewold”.

Both were absurd and incredibly insightful.

The first into the pettiness between supposed friends and writing colleagues about a review versus extreme overreaction that led to the death of other individuals. The second in revealing the sweetness of a child star who just wants her parents to get along.

Read Cacek’s “The Bitch” and Black’s “The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue” and both were amazingly good with humor and freedom.

Finished Ryan’s “Miasma” and it was horrific and brilliant with a twist I didn’t see coming fully at the end.

Read Regis’s “Love is. Choice” and it was brilliant and yet horrifying rationalization of Orion’s own use of the system he abhors so much by betraying his friend and lover because he couldn’t convince her with language alone

Just read Marr’s “Corpse Eaters” and Garcia’s “Burn 3” and like everything else in this anthology they are both terrifying and brilliantly written, constructing worlds in a few short pages that I would love to read more stories from.

Read Holders “Pale Rider” essentially a sequel to her similar story about the pale in Chicks kick butt. The problem is that those are the only two stories when I could see at least 3 novels in each era of the world you discover if not more for a minimum of 9-10 novels

Read Rachel Caine’s “Dogsbody” and it was so incredibly amazing in its dystopian world building that I wish there were more stories. The absolute purity in Virtue’s belief and loyalty and Zane’s trust in her and the horrific but heroic ending and the stupid greed of the corporate executives was very evocative and reminds me of many of the execs I served under and alongside

Read Lee’s Sea Warg, Phillip’s Country Mothers’ Sons, and Resnick’s A Most Unusual Greyhound snd they were all wonderful in very disparate ways, Lee & Vigilantiasm, Phillips in grief and longing because of war and forced relocation and children growing up and Resnick for comedic reasons and it was nice to get the comedy after the seriousness of the previous stories

Read Stohl’s “Necklace of Raindrops” and it was absolutely beautiful in its meaning.

Read Friesner’s “No Children, No Pets” and it is absolutely effing brilliant. Funny, sad, tragic, brutally simplistic all told from the eyes of a six year old.

Read Armstrong’s “Branded” which i guess is a far future of the other worlds and absolutely outstanding.

Read Roth’s “Hearken” and it was absolutely heartbreakingly beautiful and a true wonder, often like life and coming of age.

Read Vaughn’s “Learning the ropes” and it was awesome as always.

Read Tuttle’s “The Truth About Werewolves” and Wolfe’s “Innocent” and while both are from completely different perspectives what does unite them is the first person perspective and the absolute sadness that is revealed about those individuals while also being delusional, distasteful, horrific and painful. Both are brilliantly written

Read Kelner’s work to close out the book and it was equally awesome as everything else in the book.

Read Sniegoski’s story and it was so amazing including all the dogs and the grief.

Just read Holder’s VSI and my god it was effing amazing. Haven’t read any of her series yet and I sure hope this is related to one of them.

The book is never ending good stories. Hockensmith and his “An Introduction to Jewish Myth & Mysticism strikes again. The fact that I’m a historian maybe adds that additional detail of familiarity of campus life is awesome as well.

Read Faith Hunter’s “Golden Delicious” and Ilona Andrews “Magic Tests” and both were absolutely incredible. This anthology is proving to be one of the absolutely best anthologies I’ve ever read as well as one of the best books I have ever read.

Read Bowen’s “Low School”, Benson’s “Callie Meet Happy”, and Carey’s “Iphigenia in Aulis” and they are all incredibly moving and powerful in their own unique ways although I believe the last is probably the most powerful of the book so far and that says a lot because I have absolutely loved every single story.

Read Liu’s “Sympathy for the Bones” and my god this anthology is rocking after four stories. So damn good. Perfect antihero story

Read Harstad’s “Academy Field Trip” and it was so fucking amazing the only disappointing part is that he doesn’t seem to have ever returned to writing any sort of spec fiction.

Read Maberry’s “Spellcaster 2.0” and it was absolutely so amazing that I don’t have the words to describe jt

Read Harris’s “Playing Possum” which was amazing and sad given the state of our shitty country’s refusal to solve school shootings with stringent controls on guns

Read Dimilane’s “Tick Talk” was fascinatingly grotesque. On the surface the obvious body horror and suspense but so many layers underneath. Highly recommend and I’m definitely not of an indigenous bloodline.