Short Stories 366:272 — “Storm,” by G. Winston James

I keep taking breaks from His 2, and I don’t think I would have needed to had it not been our year of 2020, the perpetual trash-fire, but it is, and I have been. These short stories are firmly of the 90’s, with all the pain, grief, and sorrow thereof, and they are incredible and …

Short Stories 366:271 — “Don’t Look Down,” by Greg Herren

The last story in Survivor's Guilt and Other Stories, "Don't Look Down," is one I can easily see polarizing readers of Herren's collection. It's atmospheric, with an almost gothic feel to it: a gay reporter who was already heading to Italy as a getaway to try and recover from some of the grief of losing …

Joke’s On Me

Remember way back at the start of this year when I had a plan to release a short story about Owen and Toma (who you met in Faux Ho Ho), and their adventure on April Fools' Day with a prank gone wrong? Then my tendons got wrecked and everything fell to pieces and April Fools' …

Short Stories 366:270 — “Good With Numbers,” by Heather LaVonne Jensen

One of the awesome things about The Clan Chronicles: Tales from Plexis is how you get to visit supporting characters in the greater Trade Pact universe, and get into their heads. That isn't to say you have to have read Czerneda's wider universe to enjoy the anthology—honestly, most of the stories in this book would …

Short Stories 366:269 — “Canadian Blood Diamonds,” by Kristi Charish

And we're back in the realm of superpowers and Canada with the next story from Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories. And oh-my-gosh this was fun. As opposed to the previous story, which was a bit grittier and grim, this one has the just-shy-of-over-the-top feel of some early comic books, with a super-villainess starting off her …

Short Stories 366:268 — “Elgin,” by Bryan Washington

And here we are at the end of Lot: Stories. Holy flying crap, this collection was amazing. I've mentioned it a few times, but throughout the collection, we return to a single (unnamed) man who begins the collection with his parents running a restaurant and his older brother and sister and himself living together. As …