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5. Short story (Sunbird by Neil Gaiman): ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"[...] who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination."

""I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has not ever needed to grade papers without actually reading the blessed things.""

4. Short story (Ozioma the wicked by Nnedi Okorafor): ⭐⭐

Boring and predictable story and flat and too perfect protagonist.

3. Short story (The Griffin and the minor Canon by Frank R. Stockton): ⭐⭐⭐⭐

A beautiful little fairytale.

3. Short story: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

A beautiful little fairytale.

2. Short story (The cartographer wasps and the anarchist bees by E. Lily Yu): ⭐⭐⭐

I liked the first 3/4, but I wish the ending were different.

"The wasps of the council were gracious and only divested the envoy of her sting. She survived just long enough to deliver her account to the hive."

1. Short story (by Gahan Wilson): ⭐⭐⭐⭐

""Never falter, old man," he said. "Keep your gaze rock steady!""