This story, from We Shall Be Monsters, is so intrinsically queer and—something I freaking adore—queerly empowering that I basically fell in love from pretty much the get-go. From the nonbinary lead POV, to the slow revelations of the narrative, this is a contemporary fantasy with the perfect amount of magic and fantasy to counter the … Continue reading Sunday Shorts—The Patchwork Girl by Evelyn Deshane
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Sunday Shorts—Excerpts from the Personal Journal of Dr. V. Frankenstein, MD, Department of Pathology, Our Lady of Mercy Hospital by Alex Acks
I do love a re-telling, and this one, by Alex Acks, takes Victor Frankenstein and nudges the tale forward to take place during the 1960's through to the 1980's. Conceptually, this changes a few key pieces: the involvement of funding, the NIH, and academic politics, but where this story from We Shall Be Monsters really … Continue reading Sunday Shorts—Excerpts from the Personal Journal of Dr. V. Frankenstein, MD, Department of Pathology, Our Lady of Mercy Hospital by Alex Acks
Sunday Shorts—Ashes to Ashes by Day Al-Mohamed
I will likely always struggle with horror—it's not a genre I go to often, and almost never without many people first letting me know what I'm in for. Horror gets snagged in my head, and I end up having dark dreams or outright nightmares, so when I do read horror, it's in tiny bits, during … Continue reading Sunday Shorts—Ashes to Ashes by Day Al-Mohamed