I swear, I picked these four stories at random--the only thing I thought they had in common was that I read them all this month. It was only when I started writing that I realized that they're all about pivotal moments in their protagonists' lives--some for good and others for more complicated. They're all about change and how it can affect us and our...

This month’s theme is hidden stories and secrets—and it came together inadvertently; I read a bunch of stories over the weekend and these were the ones that really spoke to me. There's so many stories in the world and it's often worth our time to look for those around the edges--as Joanna Russ says in How to Suppress Women's Writing, it's the edges where...

I read some short fiction in December and January that I liked. Maybe you'll like it too. Most of these six stories share a general theme: what does it mean to belong and, perhaps more importantly, how do we belong? This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately as I read the news and look at what's going on both in our world and in our community....

Reviews of Suvi Kauppila’s “Wither and Blossom” and Nin Harris’s “Prosthetic Daughter”.