It was time. Time to try and get back on the blogging horse. Specifically time to get back to rounding up a collection of short speculative fiction I enjoyed and hope you will too. The Short Fiction Rec Roundup. Most stories this week are not of the happy variety. Seems fitting enough with the general mood going on these days. Still, there is some fun here, some cool, some spooky and tragic beauty. Hopefully there is something for you.

“Men in Cars” by Lisa M. Bradley from Anathema Magazine #9

This is the sort of horror story that’s hard to say too much about, because you don’t want to give anything away. I will say it was delightful for me to try and figure out which classic trope it was playing with only to realize at the end that perhaps I had limited the scope of my imagination a little too much. At one point I thought it might make a good Supernatural episode. But later I figured early seasons X-files might be better. CW: Story references sexual abuse and violence.