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"Seven Stories about Tammy" by Elizabeth McCracken - I hated it at first, then it grew on me. Interesting structure. Good characters. The writing is not difficult but is often hard to interpret or pin down. Is this bad? Maybe. I don't know.
3/5
— Sep 30, 2026 09:51AM
3/5
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"The Clean Out" - A very traditional story about a Filipino-American girl dealing with generational trauma and a missing bird. 4/5
— Sep 11, 2026 10:18AM
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"Underwater" by Hannah Kingsley-Ma - 3.5/5. Pleasantly weird. Ambiguous ending. Wife-Husband-Twin love triangle? Genetically-enhanced dog.
— Jun 03, 2026 09:45AM
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"Time of the Preacher" by Bret Anthony Johnston - A man helps his ex-wife with a snake during Covid. Rad ending. 4.5/5
— May 05, 2026 10:30AM
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"Gray, Cotton, White Lace Edges" by Isabelle Fang.
5/5 - This story was great. The combination of a quriky, awkward premise (selling used panties) and superb emotional payoff is really smooth. It's also a cool examination of self over the passage of time (among other things).
— Apr 14, 2026 08:10AM
5/5 - This story was great. The combination of a quriky, awkward premise (selling used panties) and superb emotional payoff is really smooth. It's also a cool examination of self over the passage of time (among other things).
Jeremy
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"Carmen and Maritza" - Good little story about memory, parenthood, love, selfhood, etc. The ending is ambiguous in a way that didn't really work for me.
— Mar 16, 2026 01:35PM
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"Unfathomably Deep" - Grief-fueled obsession. Not my favorite. Tries stuff that mostly works, but...
— Mar 10, 2026 10:11AM
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"Abject Naturalism" - "The plausible was described plausibly, credible things occurred in credible order." I don't know if this sentence describes this story, but I like it (both the sentence and the story). It's about a telescope, kind of.
— Mar 06, 2026 12:39PM
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"What Would I Do for You? What Would You Do for Me?" - Great, very traditional story about a trans guy in a bar in rural Wisconsin.
— Mar 04, 2026 12:06PM
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Story 2, "Take Me to Kirkland" - Funny. Weird. Dark. Awesome.
— Feb 06, 2026 09:12AM