The Malaysian Mer by Jane Yolen

Characters are tricky things to get right in short stories. It’s all well and good for novels, who can afford Continue reading →

Senator Bilbo by Andy Duncan

It’s a common parlor game (if parlor games still exist) in fannish circles to imagine what character X would do Continue reading →

Nicholas Was by Neil Gaiman

For once I have nothing to say about a story. It’s only a hundred words long, it’s on Neil Gaiman’s Continue reading →

The Bathtub by Robert Shearman

Shearman recently won a British Fantasy Award for best new collection with Remember Why You Fear Me. Having just finished Continue reading →

Mongoose by Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear

Imagine you’re a writer and you’ve just invented a race of 90ft humanoid rabbits with osmium bones. What do you Continue reading →

A Pair of Stockings by Kate Chopin

Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large Continue reading →

The Gutter Sees the Light that Never Shines by Alistair Rennie

When it comes to putting labels on movements in fiction, the ‘New Weird’ has always been ill-defined, to the point Continue reading →

Scoring Off Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Jeeves and Wooster was an excellent TV show. Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry not only embodied their parts but had Continue reading →