Reviews of Online Stories (Jan1-Feb15) at Last Short Story

[rachel_swirsky]

I'm reviewing stories at Last Short Story now. I've done my first roundup, reviewing the stories from the eight online magazines I'm planning to follow this year, from Jan 1st through Feb 15th.

Here's my favorite:

"Aftermath" by Joy Kennedy-O'Neill (Strange Horizons) - This extremely affecting story features zombies--which you're probably sick of (I am)--but it looks at them through the lends of reconciliation. How do people move on after a civil war, an apartheid, a genocide, a zombie attack--where neighbors kill each other and subsequently have to live side by side? The emotional and character work here is very skillful. I found it hard to read; it made me cry.

Click through to see other cool stories.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks for bringing these short stories to my attention -- they've made for great reading.

Also, this post includes the very most wonderful braino/typo/ reversal of words: it shows "lends of reconciliation" (which is a lending, of course) for what I suspect you meant as "lens of reconciliation."

If not, then OOOOOPS.

If yes feel free to fix it and delete this comment.

[rachel-swirsky.livejournal.com]

LOL. I did, indeed, mean lens of reconciliation. (Now I have to decide if I care enough to correct it across all the blogs. ;-) )