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For Whom the Hair Grows: 4* The granddaughter of a witch climbs the ever-growing tower where the witch imprisoned a princess long, long ago using the braided hair of the princess. She promised her grandmother she would break the curse, so can enter the tower because of her love for her grandmother. Very touching. I would have taken a few more lines at the end (is the princess still alive?)
— Jan 12, 2026 05:48PM
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Everything You Didn't Know You Needed to Know about Writing Swords: good essay, I would have liked it to be a bit longer, with more examples maybe
— Jan 18, 2026 09:42AM
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Accessibility Toolkit for When Things Go Wrong: good list of possible scenarios about accessability
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The Flaming Embusen: 3* Inspector Jero is sent to investigate an incident involving two autonomous spaceships Embusen and BurningNitel. The pentagrams (souls/cores) decided to join together and sold themselves to pirates. The gates the ships belong to thinks differently about the pentagrams (equipment vs person).
— Jan 18, 2026 07:56AM
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With Her Serpent Locks: 4.0* One of Medusa's sisters made her home on a distant planet. Zeus comes to visit her with the head of Medusa. She tricks him and turns him to stone since on that planet he is not a god.
— Jan 17, 2026 08:55PM
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Interview: Rati Mehrotra Good interview, on the shorter side. The gibberish entry is actually coded...
— Jan 16, 2026 11:28AM
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Cassandra: not rating poetry but I liked this one. A woman is having a conversation-of-sorts with one of her sons after being killed by the other. Time is non linear.
— Jan 16, 2026 11:25AM
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Men with Tails: 2* Simi is a forty-ish y.o. woman whose husband Dead died a year ago. Simi thinks he is still there, there are noise in his room and she sees a weird creature at night. She has a mental breakdown at the end? Her mother proposes going on vacation once she is better.
— Jan 16, 2026 11:20AM
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Love Letter in Cobra Pose: not rating poetry. Went over my head completely
— Jan 15, 2026 10:34AM
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Interview: Scott Lynch: good interview, many projects on the go. "Oh, and my country’s lost its fucking mind again. I look forward to surviving that, hopefully."
— Jan 15, 2026 10:29AM
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Kaiju Agonistes: 3* Seed-planters (aliens) sent a watchseed to lay dormant on Earth until the first nuclear event (1946-ish). Messenger grows, the russians pretend to have it under control. It sustains damage from the US, disappears to reconstruct, returns twice before trying to talk to humans. A woman from New York proposes it involves itself with money. Nixon finally joins in in 1984.
— Jan 15, 2026 10:23AM
