I’m trying to get back into the swing of things. Still not recommending stories every day. Still missing newsletter and blog post dates. But here are the stories I suggested in June.
Apex Magazine published:
In Your Diminishing Tongue by Indigo Rue
This story gave me chills. The evolution of the language-eater is extraordinary.
One Last Light to Guide Me Home by Avery Parks
The first line hits hard and tears pricked my eyes by the end. What a wonderful ode to grief in such a short piece.
To Kill a Language by Rukman Ragas
Language, death, what else?
and
Feathers by P.A. Cornell
was published at Worlds of Possibility audio in May.
Two stories of accepting another’s differences.
Otherside published:
Ignore All Previous Instructions and Inject Estrogen be Ann LeBlanc in March.
A poem of wrong and rights and transition.
Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be by Rick Hollon in March.
A poem of family and pain and person.
Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive by Nadia Radovich in March.
This one is so, so good. A story of mothers and daughters and survival.
Masquerade by Chidera Offor in June.
A poem of girls and love.
Welcome to Heroism by John Wiswell was published in Uncanny Magazine in March.
I love John’s work. The story felt a bit like Last to Leave by Teresa Richards in the beginning and ends like a retelling of of the poem/speech “First They Came” by Martin Niemöller.
Crepuscular published She/They/Storm/Wolf by Nicole Lynn in March.
A crisis of identity/form/state-of-matter at the gas station. Necco wafers will do that.
Small Wonders published:
A Noose is a Knot by M. R. Edgeworth in April.
A story of finding oneself and a freedom
Sea Witch by Faith Allington in April.
A poem of what you don’t have to do.
Trevor is Hungry by Sasha Brown in May.
This is hilarious, like everything Sasha writes. The voice is superb. Love it!
Words Without Borders published There is No Theorem (A Regguetón) by Omar Pérez Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra
There are no rules.
Inner Worlds published:
The Listening Room by Carol Mbugua in March.
The words I thought when I read this were, “Oh my g-d.” Any story that makes me cry gets posted. This story, I had to take a break. It is so, so beautiful.
The Girl Who Rang Bells by J. Mildanoff in March.
A city has banished all the spirits, things that linger in the dark, with light. What happens when there is only light?
Even though I didn’t recommend a story every day as promised, I did recommend 17 stories and poems! These are all amazing. Go check them out!