February was a fairly good reading month though I was sidetracked by a long weekend away, some family stuff, and the act and aftermath of getting the kitten fixed. Turns out that the drugs they use to anesthetize cats for surgery sometimes turns them into psychotic Tasmanian Devil beasts for about a day.
Most of the short fiction for February came from three sources – The Long List Anthology volumes 3 and 4, and Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov. The rest were random picks from journals, both print and online.
I am also pushing through to the end of Sayak Valencia’s Gore Capitalism, which I started reading back in January. I hit a point where I had to put it down, and fully expected that to be the end of it, but there was something about the book that just would not let go of me, so I picked it up again and am going to try to get to the end in the next few days.
Here is the list of short prose I read in the month of February 2020.
- “Waiting Out the End of the World at Patty’s Place Cafe” – Kritzer, Naomi (The Long List Anthology, vol. 4)
- “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue” – Anders, Charlie Jane (The Long List Anthology, vol. 4)
- “Confessions of a Con Girl” – Wolven, Nick (The Long List Anthology, vol. 4)
- “Utopia, LOL?” – Wahls, Jamie (The Long List Anthology, vol. 4 )
- “Lullaby for a Lost World” – de Bodard, Aliette (The Long List Anthology, vol. 3)
- “Terminal” – Tidhar, Lavie – (The Long List Anthology, vol. 3)
- “The Scholast in the Low Water Kingdoms” – Gladstone, Max (The Long List Anthology, vol. 4)
- “Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands” – McGuire, Seanan (The Long List Anthology, vol. 3)
- “Things with Beards” – Miller, Sam J. (The Long List Anthology, vol. 3)
- “On the Slate” – Shalamov, Varlam (Kolyma Stories)
- “At Night” – Shalamov, Varlam (Kolyma Stories)
- “Carpenters” – Shalamov, Varlam (Kolyma Stories)
- “Paradox” – Kritzer, Naomi (The Long List Anthology, vol. 4)
- “A Personal Quota” – Shalamov, Varlam (Kolyma Stories)
- “The Parcel” – Shalamov, Varlam (Kolyma Stories)
- “Sour Meat” – Tse, Dorothy (That We May Live)
- “Gonzales, California” – Berardino, Christopher Seiji (Blind Corner Literary Magazine)
- “Aquacultural Appropriation” – Glanzman, Kimberly (Blind Corner Literary Magazine)
- “Angel of the Blockade” – Acks, Alex (The Long List Anthology, vol. 4)
- “The Fisher of Bones” – Gailey, Sarah (The Long List Anthology, vol. 4)
- “Crispin’s Model” – Gladstone, Max (The Long List Anthology, vol. 4)
- “The Atheist and the Angel” – Buckell, Tobias (Patreon)
If you made it this far down the page, you deserve a picture of a kitten.
