Short Stories and Books to Remember. I will be migrating my reviews in from Goodreads.
The Reality Trip by Robert Silverberg ★★★★☆
“She is a cosmic nuisance, but I fear I’m getting to like her.”
Part meaningful story of loneliness, part SNL skit, I burst out laughing at least twice.
Maybe I’m an asshole and I should have seen the despair in more even terms but deep levels of crazy amuse me.
It’s How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days with crab aliens. How could I not laugh?
“She poured the dregs of the coffee over his boots with some contempt and walked out.”
I’m a fan of strong female characters, vengeance stories, and weird westerns so this suited me down to my toes!
Oh that takes me back! My favorite episodes were the one-off monster tales, the pit stops of strange. Kelley Armstrong, urban fantasy fae mistress, has given us a treat!
“Man is not happy, unless he has some enemy to overcome, some difficulty to surmount.”
Amazing first story! Just as humans took over for the dinosaurs so the insects are fighting to take over from man in this near future drama.
Told from multiple generations of the same family it is more about what drives us, physically and spiritually, as people. It is not enough to merely exist.
This was layered, entertaining, and insightful. Loved it!
Read it for yourself:
https://ebooks.genesismachina.ca/harris-the-miracle-of-the-lily/
In this mountain of mediocre I was completely unprepared for a tearjerker.
From the first lines I saw this as a Tim Burton movie, animated like A Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s a story about family, and using the time you have to be with the ones you love.
And now I’m crying harder and I have to go call my mom for no reason.
Read it for yourself: http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/carnival-nine/
"All you need to know is that you cannot trust me." These are true words, heed them. All the warnings on the first page were tr...
