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Review: We Are All So Good At Smiling - Amber McBride
Genre: Novel in Verse Published: Feiwel Friends, January 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars "My point is that a leaf knows it’s important at all...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Corpse Beneath the Crocus - N.N. Nelson
Genre: modern poetry Published: Atmostphere Press, February 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars “I am haunted, by the ghost of the future I wanted”...
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Review: Crossroads - Laurel Hightower
Genre: Horror, Novella Published: Fireside Horror, August 2020 My rating: 4/5 stars "The first time Chris buried a part of herself by her...
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Review: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on - Franny Choi
Genre: Poetry Published: Ecco Press, November 2022 My rating: 3.5/5 stars "By the time the apocalypse began, the world had already...
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Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Genre: magical realism, literary fiction Published: Picador Press, September 2019, (first published December 2015 in the original...
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Review: Seven Empty Houses - Samanta Schweblin
Genre: Short Story Collection, Literary Horror Published: One World Publications (US) & Riverhead Books (UK), October 2022, originally...
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Review: How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
Genre: Literary Fiction, Sci-Fi, Short-Stories Published: Bloomsbury Publishing, January 18th 2022 My Rating: 4/5 stars “It’s strange how...
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Review: Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong
Genre: Poetry Published: Jonathan Cape UK, April 7th 2022 My Rating: 5/5 stars Ocean Vuong had absolutely nothing to prove to me, and...
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Review: The Smallest of Bones - Holly Lyn Walrath
Genre: Poetry Published: CLASH Books, September 2021 My Rating: 4/5 stars "Hiding our hearts is easy when we have so many bones" Few ...
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Review: Because the Sky is a Thousand Soft Hurts - Elizabeth Kirschner
Genre: Short Stories Published: Atmosphere Press, June 2021 My rating: 1/5 stars I’m always deeply hesitant to give a one-star rating to...
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Review: Things We Say in the Dark - Kirsty Logan
Genre: Horror, Short-stories Published: Harvill Secker, October 2019 Rating: No rating Ever since its announcement in early 2019, Things...
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Review: Escape Routes - Naomi Ishiguro
Review of Naomi Ishiguro's debut short story collection Escape Routes
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Review: Fen - Daisy Johnson
Genre: Short Stories, Magical Realism Published: Jonathan Cape, June 2016 My Rating: 4/5 stars “I know who you are though in a moment I...
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Review: Salt Slow - Julia Armfield
Genre: Magical Realism, Short Stories Published: Picador, May 2019 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Before him, she had often wondered whether...
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Review: Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black - Marcus&Julian Sedgwick
Genre: Poetry, Historical Published: Candlewick Press, August 2019 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars ARC provided by publisher. ”Hell is different...
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Review: The Girl Aquarium - Jen Campbell
Genre: Poetry, Magical Realism Published: Bloodaxe, April 2019 My rating: 4.5/5 stars "Smash this circus to the ground. Howl fiercely at...
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Review: Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories - Kelly Barnhill
Genre: Short Stories, Fantasy/Magical Realism Published: Algonquin Books, February 2018 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars "It is our flaws that make...
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Review: Tales from the Inner City - Shaun Tan
Genre: Short-story collection Published: Arthur A. Levine Books, September 2018 My rating: 5/5 stars Beautiful in so many ways... Tales...
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Review: Ariel - Sylvia Plath
Genre: poetry Published: Faber and Faber, 2010 originally published 1965 My rating: 5/5 stars, all-time favorite "I know the bottom, she...
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Review: Into Oblivion - Chloe Frayne
Genre: Poetry Published: Self-published, february 2018 My Rating: 4/5 stars Love is falling upwards... It was by pure chance that this...
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