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#amreadingfiction

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro

In Ída Hennessy's "A Slightly Different Sunrise from Mercury, Nevada," Annie works as a "Canary" at the Nevada nuclear test site, at a time portal bringing tourists back to 1952. Multiple unexpected gut punches. Strongly recommended.

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro

"Belladonna" by Cressida Blake Roe operates on two levels. On the surface, a time-traveling botanist finds a young protégé with unique abilities. Deeper, it's a story about grooming and psychological abuse of girls. Gritty horror. Strongly recommended.

houseofgamut.com/gamut-magazin

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House Of GamutBelladonnaHer last memory was a hand prying her jaw open and settling a small, round fruit on her tongue. She couldn’t tell whether the touch was coercion or caress as she bit down, teeth sinking into the explosion of sweetness and juice that spilled down over her lips, painting them red. ••• Her first memory […]
Allan Dyen-Shapiro

More Codex 2024 reading, this one from my friend and critique partner Sam Pisciotta. In "House of the Hidden Moon," two worlds bump up against each other. In one, an alcoholic mother has died and left the house to her son. In a second, a ghost and fairies stand in for a family that might have been. It's sad and disturbing, yet beautiful. Strongly recommended.
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Nightmare Magazine · House of the Hidden Moon - Nightmare MagazineMy mother sits at the kitchen table in the moonlight, gazing at her folded hands. “Has your father returned with Lilah?” “You know he hasn’t.” The tremor she had before she died is gone. A tube runs from the oxygen unit, through her laced fingers, and up into her nostrils.
Allan Dyen-Shapiro

In "When the Cattle Gun Touches Her Forehead" by Ben Serna-Grey, trillionaires get the Nobel while a father slaves on a tower to reduce atmospheric CO2 and his wife submits to in utero genetic engineering to make the baby eat plastic. Satiric treatment of eco-fascism. Strongly recommended

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro

Andrew Sayre's "You Look a Lot Like Aton Fuller" is a perspective I haven't seen: an adult clone, grown for spare parts for a rich man, freed when that practice became untenable, musing about this man upon his death. Definitely thought-provoking. Highly recommended.

aurealis.com.au/store/aurealis

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aurealis.com.auAurealis #174 — Aurealis
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"I hope you enjoy Herald Petrel as well!" ....

I am! It's great. I'm loving it

I don't seem to have the right words to convey what I feel about books I'm reading because words like 'enjoy' and 'love' don't feel right when the story deals with tough situations; 'appreciate' is too weak

I think HP is great writing
The story comes across as 'real' and I love the interplay between the characters

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