Short Stories 366:82 — “Knotting Grass, Holding Ring,” by Ken Liu

If there's one recurring facet in Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History that I struggled with as a reader, it was how often the stories are set during (the seemingly endless) slaughter of one people by another. This time, we're in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, in 1645, and the Manchus are about …

Sunday Shorts – Great Jones Street

I'm late with Sunday Shorts today (I have a good reason, I promise: I got the edits back on Triad Soul and I've been reading through them most of the day). Between that, taking the dog to the pit for his Sunday walk, and going for groceries, I sort of fell behind. That said, I …