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“Lasiren” by Erin E. Adams — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I really liked the description and intentional ambiguity

“The Other One” by Violet Allen — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ great pacing and unnerving tone

“Invasion of the Baby Snatchers” by Lesley Nneka Arimah — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So well-developed in such a short page count. Gave great SCP vibes

“Wandering Devil” by Cadwell Turnbull — ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love the idea of wanderers slipping through the cracks in the world

“Eye and Tooth” by Rebecca Roanhorse — ⭐️⭐️ a little too predictable

“Reckless Eyeballing” by N.K. Jemisin — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the first thing I’ve actually ever read by Jemisin, and holy shit I get it. It’s brilliant how she slowly peels back each layer of his psyche in a natural progression paralleling the escalation of the eyes

Ah yes, the horror of becoming a tradwife

“Reunion” — ⭐️⭐️ bit of a reserved ending

“Ruler of the Winds and Sands” — ⭐️⭐️ too much of a basic moral fable for me

“Home Sweet Home” — ⭐️⭐️⭐️ would’ve liked a bit more resolution, but still very enjoyable

“Scars” — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love how some of these are written like deranged fairytales

“Goodbye, My Love” — ⭐️⭐️ didn’t say anything particularly interesting about androids

"Snare" — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Damn that's brutal. Fuck all men, but especially greedy men

"The Frozen Finger" — ⭐️⭐️⭐️ a little too abstract at the very end for me

"Cursed Bunny" — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ love when the titular story in a collection is great

"The Embodiment" — ⭐️⭐️⭐️ In a story where a woman gets pregnant from taking contraceptives for too long, the most unbelievable part to me was when she said birth control doesn't require a prescription

"The Head" — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ gross

Really worried for my girl Abraxa right now

“The Pitch” — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ NOW we’re getting somewhere. Very ominous with just the right amount of infused weirdness

“Lizards” — ⭐️⭐️ creepy…I guess

“Cult of Mary” — ⭐️⭐️⭐️ best thing in the book so far is this line: “And of course we had set ourselves up for this failure, the two of us, for how could any trip, no matter how splendid, bear up under the brutal weight of /last/?” More of this please

“Hill of Hell” — ⭐️⭐️

“Even when Desmond was at his worst, he wasn’t half as bad as most cops.” Sorry, didn’t you say he best his own son to death? Like yeah, fuck the pigs, but you said that he brutally murdered his son… that has to be AT LEAST half as bad as MOST cops right?

“Uranians” — ⭐️⭐️⭐️ hmmm

"Talk to Your Children About Two-Tongued Jeremy" — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Aside from the weird first person pov peppered throughout, this is the weird shit I've been waiting for in this book

"Six Hangings in the Land of Unkillable Women" — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Liked it!

I’m on my annual moving out nonfiction kick

“Lacuna Heights” — ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was such an interesting concept!! I just feel like it wasn’t explored in the most effective or impactful way in such a short story

“Toward a Theory of Alternative Lifestyles” — ⭐️⭐️ meh

These two are making me so emotional