2019 Short Fiction Roundup 2

The second round up of the year! Will these posts become a monthly thing? I hope not. I mean, that’s a good minimum, but I’d certainly like to do better than that! That’s something to worry about next week though. For now I’ve got some stories I really enjoyed to share with you. Most of them are very recent, one is not. Most are fairly long, one is not. Overall I think just about anyone should be able to find one story to enjoy from this selection, hopefully much more than that. I, of course, enjoyed them all.

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Weekly Fiction Rec Roundup 5

I’m coming in a day later than usual and with only 5 stories this time, but it is time for another roundup of fiction I’ve recently read and liked enough to share on my Mastodon feed. I think there’s an interesting selection here with a series of styles that range from feeling like they could have come from a different era (the 2nd and last story) to the thoroughly modern (like the first story). As usual there’s a fair bit of weird and creepy and unsettling, but not only that. And, as usual I think there’s hope to be found here too.

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