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The Reach - Quite a sweet ending. 3.5

Uncle Otto's Truck - 3.75
Milkman 1 & 2 - tbh, I didn't really get the second one. 3 stars
Gramma - 4
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet - 4

Survivor Type - dnf. nope nope nope no thank you

Beachworld - 4
The Reaper's Image - 4.5 - I'm a sucker for campfire stories like this'
Nona - 4.5
For Owen - meh

Word Processor of the Gods - 3 stars. Man, 80s King really hated fat people.

The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands - 3.75 stars. I liked this one better than the club story in Different Seasons, but neither were standouts.

Here There Be Tigers - 3.5
The Monkey - 4.5
Cain Rose Up - 4
Mrs Todd's Shortcut - 5!!!!
The Jaunt - 3.5
Paranoid: A Chant - 2
The Raft - 3

The Mist - 5 stars

I need this as a brain break book. Everything else I'm reading is so heavy.

Southern Monsters - 5 stars!!!

The Railroad Pilgrim - 5 stars!!!!

Homo Levin - 3 stars

The Abrahamics - 4.5 stars. Really enjoyed this one. Reminiscent of EAP.

To A Soul - 3.75 stars

Terra Ex Nihilo - 3.75 stars. Mind bending.

Silence - 4.5 stars. That was some Twilight Zone shit. Horrifying.

Heretics - DNF. Not because it was bad, I'm just not into techbro horror.

Squeak! - 4 stars! I don't know why I was so invested in these rats' political system but I guess it activated the part of my brain that loved Redwall as a kid.

Night's Gifts - 3.75 stars. Lovecraft by way of r/nosleep

Escape from Kharkiv - 4.5 stars

Paper Lantern Boys - 4 stars! Such a tender ending for an anthology with a theme that was brutal at times. It made me tear up a little <3

The Water That Hides In The Waves - 4 stars. Very interesting world building!

Buried Alive - 4 stars

Out of Body, Out of Mind - 5 stars!!!

Over the Mountains, Beyond the Barrens - 4.75 stars

The Benediction of Gaia - 5 stars!!! "Not miracles after all. Just science. Everything, their whole lives, just science."

Small Rebellions - 3.75 stars. That had a banger ending!

Perfect Worlds - 4 stars. Loved the cyberpunk, loved the surveillance state, love the bio-technology. I might be too dumb to understand the plot, though.

The Last Snow Protea - 5 stars!!! God, what a fantastic opener.

The arrowing arrows arrowed arrowedly. Whatever editor didn't take a red pen to that with extreme prejudice was asleep at the wheel.

Flying Cows - 3.5 stars.

The girl named Ukupha/za/mi/se/ka - 5 stars!!! Wait, this one is my new favourite.

Bury me, don't bury my face - 4 stars. That was a rollercoaster!

Between our windows - 5 stars! I got to hear the author do a reading from this story and it's left me quite attached to it. She put so much emotion into it. She could read for audiobooks!

The moon-eyed maiden - 4.75 stars