#ShortStoryMonth Day Twenty-Seven — “A Little Queermas Carol,” by Sassafras Lowrey

Not As Short, But Oh So Sweet Ah, novellas! I love me novellas. And this one? A Little Queermas Carol is adorable. It's not the kind of thing I expected to say about a Queer Leather Little retelling of A Christmas Carol, but then again, having been lucky enough to meet Sassafras Lowrey a few times at the Saints and …

#ShortStoryMonth Day Two — Lava Falls, by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Collections You've Loved Okay, confession time: it took me a really, really long time to remember the difference between a collection and an anthology. Collections are single-author volumes of short fiction, and anthologies are multi-author volumes of short fiction. This means my "Single author short story collections" above there is redundant, but whatever, I have …

Sunday Shorts—Lava Falls by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Lava Falls is the novella for which Lucy Jane Bledsoe's collection is named, and I while I mentioned the first story in the collection (Girl with Boat) way back in January as one of the best opening tales in a collection I've ever read, this novella? Masterful. I'm not sure I can do the narrative …

Sunday Shorts—Girl with Boat, by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

So far as I know, they're all dead. Wow. So I read this first story from Lava Falls in bed (as I often read collections and anthologies, one story at a time before sleep) and then stared at the dark ceiling for a good half-hour afterward, the story turning itself over and over in my …