There is a curious fey quality to this story, even Fay, with the odd man and his hat and the fog hiding the island, and... but it isn't a fairy story

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Another Vernon! I guess at this penultimate place so her stories don't become brackets?

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Pocosin by Ursula Vernon I like ( Read more... )

Oh, this is the dark and strangely touching story I need...

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This is as if the Toy Story movies spawned a desire for intelligent dolls that could suffer...

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Build-A-Dolly by Ken LiuI read, I was enthralled and horrified and OMG it was horrible, a nightmarish prospect and reminder of how ( Read more... )

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It's a long way down...

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L’esprit de L’escalier by Peter M. Ball A guy walks down a never-ending ( Read more... )

There's a weird desire for people to call stories told in letters etc experimental, as if entire books hadn't been written that way for a goodly number of years. I suspect it gets the tag now because so often the work fails... This one doesn't.

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This story had pretty solid writing, quite possibly lost some parts in translation (the US is a land that gets peculiarly different from the UK in unexpected ways)...

and made me uncomfortable at several points.

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This is a good solid story to read, until it makes the tragic error of pointing out it's own logic flaw... or does it?

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Seriously, a ray of sunshine in here would be appreciated...

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Keep Talking by Marie VibbertBut wait, isn't this a ( Read more... )