I have been reading so much short fiction and been so busy with officiating in soccer tournaments that I am going to try something a little different for these updates. It takes quite a bit of time to roll up these summaries each week or so. But it doesn’t take quite so much time to enter what I have read into my table over at my short fiction page.
Going forward, I will use posts like this to announce an update to that page and list below my favorites over that time period. This is the first in this experiment.
| Title | Author | Summary | My Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Devourers of War; or, An Excerpt from the Cookbook of the Gods | Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe | A god who sowed the seed of the destruction of all the other gods must find and destroy their opposites that he also created. | An almost perfect mythic fantasy. Well told by a trickster god. |
| Terms of Enlightenment | Patrick Hurley | A delinquent criminal is sentenced to a virtual reality monastery. | Very satisfying. Explores reality and what motivates us. |
| Espie Droger Dreams of War | Matthew Kressel | A logistics officer in the past who is responsible for millions of deaths in his future is visited by a major from that future to punish him. | Wow! What a story! Reads like an episode of The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror. An exploration of indirect culpability. |
