Neil Willcox Pretender To The Goblin Throne: 3. A Return To The Fragrant Mountain by Jonathan Louis Duckworth in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social , Kewy's voice killed her parents so her brother sells her to a mysterious gunman on the way to the fragrant mountain. But you cannot return to the mountain. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-re...

Short story review update, ten short stories (loosely defined) I read, click through for my thoughts, check the thread to just read the stories. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2024/06/june...

June Short Story Update 2nightofthehats.blogspot.com 10 more stories I read. 1. Sea Superstitions by Lily Hunger in Corvid Queen It is bad luck to have a woman on board ship. Yet they bring ...

1. Sea Superstitions by Lily Hunger in Corvid Queen; it is bad luck to have a woman on board ship, but they bring her anyway and the weather worsens corvidqueen.com/stories/sea-...

Sea Superstitions / Lily Hunger — Corvid Queencorvidqueen.com They said I was bad luck. / They promised me safe passage.

2. Iconography by Stephanie Frazee in @rfpress.bsky.social , a woman takes her son to a Catholic service, the second one for her, the first for him, and has advice for him. roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/...

"Iconography" by Stephanie Frazeeroifaineantarchive.wixsite.com I attended mass with my son. His first time, my second. My first time was my boyfriend’s niece’s first communion. My boyfriend said the sanctuary might spontaneously combust when I walked in. I wasn’t...

3. A Return To The Fragrant Mountain by Jonathan Louis Duckworth in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social , Kewy's voice killed her parents so her brother sells her to a mysterious gunman on the way to the fragrant mountain. But you cannot return to the mountain. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-re...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Return to the Fragrant Mountain by Jonathan Louis Duckworthwww.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com With Moud she crosses arid wastes where the swirling sand blasts the feeling from her skin, scrub forests where the luminous sap that has dripped from the broken moon-pieces pools in fallen leaves, an...

4. The Empty Throne by Benjamin C Kinney Sunday Morning Transport. Lea sees the Angel Samiel at the gates of Budapest and thinks it is her father's fault. But it isn't, the angel is there for other reasons. www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/the-empty-...

The Empty Thronewww.sundaymorningtransport.com This month’s stories — by authors Nibedita Sen, Yoon Ha Lee, Marie Brennan, and Benjamin C. Kinney — are free to read, but it’s our paying subscribers who allow us to keep publishing great stories wee...

5. The Fleet Of Lamvula by Rab Foster in @curtissandsm.bsky.social , in a dry sea mercenary swordsmen escort their employer to stranded ships of an infamous pirate queen swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-fleet-of...

The Fleet of Lamvula – Swords & Sorcery Magazineswordsandsorcerymagazine.com

6. A Girl Explodes by Ruth Joffre in @3lobedmag.bsky.social , no one knows why she exploded, though they have guesses, and she left behind a portal that monsters come out of www.3lobedmag.com/issue37/3lbe...

3LBE Magazine - A Girl Explodes by Ruth Joffrewww.3lobedmag.com No one knows why. Her friends, who were with her at the time, walking around in search of Halloween costumes to wear to a party that weekend, theorize that it had something to do with gym class...

7. When Figgie Flew by Melissa Ostrom in Painted Bride , Figgie's sixteen, makes a friend, does a project, stops dreaming about flying pbqmag.org/melissa-ostr...

Melissa Ostrom: When Figgie Flew - Painted Bride Quarterlypbqmag.org Figgie is easy to miss, despite her proximity to the fish, or maybe because of it. She sits in front of Mr. Briggs’s tank. The students wander her way, not to see her, but to find the seahorse or not...

8. Erictho And The Cumean Sibyl Walk Into A Bar… by Eric Williams in Cold Signal , two mythological figures go to a restaurant in Athens for an outrageous night (one of them saw it on TV) cold-signal.com/erichtho-and...

Erichtho and the Cumaen Sibyl Walk Into A Bar…cold-signal.com Erichtho and the Cumaen Sibyl Walk Into A Bar…by Eric Williams Birds, it is avowed, do not fly over the Acropolis; sanctified by the gods, its numinous aura is instantly recognized by all members of t...

9. In The Canyon by Lori Sambol Brody in MudRoom , a former musician goes to a party with her husband and daughter, doesn't entirely fit in to the canyon www.mudroommag.com/lori-sambol-...

LORI SAMBOL BRODY — MudRoomwww.mudroommag.com

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