Welcome once more to a Short Fiction Roundup of some stories I’ve enjoyed reading in the last week or so and hope you might too. As always if you do enjoy any of these stories yourself I hope you’ll consider giving them and the places that publish them a shout out. It’s a great way to support short fiction. These roundups are pretty simple. I cast about for stories to read and when I find one I like I put it in the roundup. Often though, I look over them when I’m done and realize an inadvertent theme has emerged. This week I’d say if there is such a theme I didn’t plan for but see now I’d say it was endings. I can’t promise every story fits under that broad umbrella, but it does seem like many of these tales talk of coming to the end of a story.
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Weekly Fiction Rec Roundup 11
The Weekly Fiction Rec Roundup returns with it’s 11th installment. I’ve got five stories to share with you this week.There is a lot of despair and darkness in this week’s stories, in particular through our middle three selections that have such a similarity of feel that they could easily fit together in an anthology featuring dark stories of women protagonists who are perhaps uncompromising, perhaps a bit broken, perhaps even unlikeable.
Clearly I was gravitating to the uncomfortable in my reading this weak, though that should not be taken as any condemnation of these stories. We need stories of survival and struggle, both on personal scales and larger and these have it. We also have some interesting sci-fi and a moody, though not dark, not really, jazz-age fantasy to look at. Oh, and this will also be the first Roundup to use in-line notes1Because I tend to be mighty fond of adding parenthetical additions to my main point and I’m kind of liking using this system to both get to ramble on a bit and clean up my presentation., so there’s that.