SH Flashback: “Late for Dinner,” by Ursula Pflug
A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective: “Late for Dinner,” by Ursula Pflug A compelling and lovely magical-realist...
Archive for Short Stories
SH Flashback: “Until Forgiveness Comes,” by K. Tempest Bradford
A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. This week's Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Until Forgiveness Comes,” by K....
SH Flashback: “Who in Mortal Chains,” by Claire Humphrey
A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. This week's Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Who in Mortal Chains,” by...
SH Flashback: “Inventory,” by Carmen Maria Machado
A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. This week's Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Inventory,” by Carmen Maria Machado...
SH Flashback: “Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs,” by Leonard Richardson
A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. This week's Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Let Us Now Praise Awesome...
SH Flashback: “The Welsh Squadron,” by Margaret Ronald
A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. The format of this entry is the same as before: I'll...
SH Flashback: “Valiant on the Wing,” by Chris Szego
As I noted last week, I've embarked on a weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. The format of this entry is the...
SH Flashback: “In the Cold,” by Kelly Jennings
During my twelve years as a fiction editor at Strange Horizons, we published over 500 stories. Now that I've been...
Who would’ve been on the Best Editor Hugo ballots?
Jim Hines posted yesterday about the Best Editor categories of the Hugo ballot. A friend asked who might've been on...
Good weekend
This weekend went surprisingly well in various ways: I completed something like a dozen to-do items that I had been...
Fathers and stories: “Emerson’s Chevrolet”
I've written before about marvelous storyteller Willy Claflin. Today in the car his story “Emerson's Chevrolet” came up in my...
First-person plural, indeterminate
I've now encountered this interesting and unusual PoV in multiple works of fiction: The narration is in first-person plural. It...