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Tag: Short stories

Review: Take It Outside (edited by Cash Torn and Orlando Silver)

Does what it says on the tin.

Erotica, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Short stories, Trans

Review: Always Will Be by Mikaela Saunders

Radical visions of the future.

Australian, Clim change, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Short stories, Speculative

Review: Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao)

Lithe, spectral stories.

Colonialism, Fiction, Indonesia, LGBTIQ, Short stories, Translation

Best books I’ve read 2023

2023 reviewed.

Anthology, Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Female writers, Fiction, History, India, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Novel, Racism, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction, War, Year in review

Review: Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn

Amusing, playful and inventive short stories.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction

Review: Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson

I screamed, I cackled, I winced my way through these delicious short stories.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Short stories

Review: Vā (edited by Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Young

A rich series of stories and poems from the Pacific Ocean.

Aotearoa, Contemporary, Fiction, Fiji, Hawai’i, New Zealand, Pacific, Poetry, Samoa, Short stories, Vanuatu

Review: An Exciting And Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rossa

Stories that illuminate the condition of the modern world.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, gay, LGBTIQ, queer, Short stories

Review: The Dangers Of Smoking In Bed by Mariana Enriquez (translated by Megan McDowell)

There are plenty of scary creatures in this collection, but the real horror is what it says about the our world.

Argentina, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short stories

Review: Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor continues to explore Black, queer Midwest life.

America, Black writers, Contemporary, LGBTIQ, queer, Short stories, US

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