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Weed's ability to infuse a sentence with layers of meaning is like an artist creating a complex two-dimensional image with depth out of layers of paint:
"It must have been even better from his perspective, twenty or thirty feet above the snow, wind whistling around his ears, his shadow tracking across the dimpled slope like the shadow of a soaring bird, or an alter ego, or the final glimpse of a departing soul."
— 22 hours, 30 min ago
"It must have been even better from his perspective, twenty or thirty feet above the snow, wind whistling around his ears, his shadow tracking across the dimpled slope like the shadow of a soaring bird, or an alter ego, or the final glimpse of a departing soul."
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"The Afternoon Client": 5/5 - perhaps the titular murder--another flawless, compelling story. This one about a fishing guide.
— 16 hours, 59 min ago
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"Tower Eight": 5/5 - this is one of the best short stories I've ever read--my review wouldn't do it justice. Reminds me a little of "The Last Rung on the Ladder."
— 22 hours, 24 min ago
Jeff
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The dialogue here is impeccable. Like it would be harder to sustain disbelief than suspend it.
— 22 hours, 38 min ago
Jeff
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these shorts showcase how good a writer tim weed really is, almost hard to believe:
He made a show of putting the remaining ones back in his coat pocket, but his fist stayed closed when he took it out and I think he must have taken the extras, too. In the end, it probably didn’t matter.
— Jan 14, 2026 08:02AM
He made a show of putting the remaining ones back in his coat pocket, but his fist stayed closed when he took it out and I think he must have taken the extras, too. In the end, it probably didn’t matter.
Jeff
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"The Camp at Cutthroat Lake": 5/5 - saturated with a sense of lurking dread, this story relies on the symbolism of an otherwise innocuous fishing trip, and the subtle character development doled out sparingly across only a few pages. Impeccable pacing and foreshadowing, thought-provoking and vivid.
— Jan 12, 2026 02:44PM
