Review: Hunting Monsters by S. L. Huang
My mother taught me to shoot, but it was Auntie Rosa who bought me my first rifle. It was long and sleek and shiny, varnished wood and brass and just […]
Category Archives: Short Story
Retelling: Cruel Sisters: short story from song
The bare bones of the Twa Sisters ballad goes something like this:* two sisters walk by the water’s edge the elder pushes the younger in the younger sister drowns Most variants, […]
Daydreams for Night by John Southworth and David Ouimet (illustrations)
Hardcover, 48 pages Published September 1st 2014 by Simply Read Books Source: Publisher Before I talk about the contents of this book, a shout out to the book designer Naomi […]
A few more short stories
Steph’s post the other day got me thinking. I know how I read short stories – straight through, cover to cover, unless I enjoy a story so much that I […]
J.K. Rowling’s Torturous Short Stories
“There are celebrities – and then there are celebrities.” – J.K. Rowling as Rita Skeeter in the Harry Potter Sequel, “Dumbledore’s Army Reunites at Quidditch World Cup Final” If […]
Sly short stories
Last week I looked at a few light-hearted short stories. This week I thought I’d bring to the foreground a few sly and clever short stories, the kind with trickster […]
Light-hearted short stories
Short stories in high school anthologies tended toward the bleak. Nothing was resolved, nothing quite made sense, and everyone was unhappy in a sort of run-down, hopeless way. I was […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Four: Tales from Outer Suburbia
“whenever we had followed his pointy hoof we’d always been surprised, relieved, and delighted at what we’d found. And every time we’d said exactly the same thing – ‘How did […]
Review: PULP Literature: Winter 2014: Issue 1
It took me over a month, but I finally handed over my (okay, our) copy of the first issue of PULP Literature to Steph on Monday. And promptly realized that […]
“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison, Rick Berry (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 48 pages Published October 28th 1997 by Underwood Books Source: Library “And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes goes goes […]
The Book Wars 