#themagazineoffantasyandsciencefiction — Public Fediverse posts

It's a slow-rolled thread of short #TwitteReviews of my favorite stories in the September/October 2023 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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Poetry:


How To Pack For a Quest by #MarySoonLee
How big is your bag?

 Some surprising but smart choices

Lost Lines From Ariel’s Song by #GretchenTessmer
Revenge is a dish best served with…playbills?

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The Giant’s Dream by #BethGoder

A Giant as a canvas and art considered as an autoimmune disease; should the artist find a new media?

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A Time to Sing by #EddieDMoore

It ain’t over until the fat dwarf…

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Plumage From Pegasus; I, For One, Welcome Our New Insect Litterateurs by #PaulDiFilippo

Title says it all.

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Pedestals, Proclivities, and Perpetuities by #CelesteRitaBaker

Rooftops are better than pedestals because they are bigger on the topside.

“Send up my Be Relax™ masseur, Dolby Digital™ sound system and Food Ninja™. You can stay down there Charlie.”

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What to Do When a Protagonist Visits Your Generic Village by #DanPeacock

A guide for the NPC aspiring to become a protagonist. Will the circle be unbroken?

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The Day of the Sea by #JenniferHudak

The slow, relentless rise of The Sea; some will fight her and others will embrace her. Whatever the plan, she will change your world.

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A Meal for Frederick by #NickThomas


Compulsively feeding your obsessions is working out just fine. The dragon doesn’t seem to be getting fat and it has to eat, doesn’t it?

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A Half-Remembered World by Aimee Ogden @aimeeogden


Everyone wants something a little better for them and their kids, even those living on the back of their God--a giant sea-going crab

It's a hard scrabble existent, but in God’s wanderings you get an occasional glimpse of a different--and perhaps better-- place.

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NPC (or Eight Haxploits to Maximize Your Endgame Farming: A Player’s Guide) by #DaVaunSanders

Blurring the line between a world with confrontation, manipulation, violence and an on-line computer game.

While grinding and farming be sure to remember than NPCs are people too.

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Gather Me a Treasure by #JordanChaseYoung


Eternal devotion and sacrifice, but never a moment together; a tragic love story.

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Little Bird by #JillMcMillan

Her whole life centered around taking care of her stern humorless daddy. You can’t blame a woman for wanting to fly and sing a little.

An escape from quiet desperation on the Great Northern Plains...but at what cost?

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We Go On Faith Alone by #KSWalker

Just a thin pane of often unseeable glass—metaphorical or real—separates us from our long journey and final destination.

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Serenity Prayer by #FaithMerino


The cycle of abuse; "My daddy learnt it from his daddy, and his daddy afore him. If it was good enough for them, by God, it is good enough for me! Just shut your pie hole and accept it."

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The Pet of Olodumare by #JoshuaUchennaOmenga and #OghenechovweDonaldEkpeki

The Godhead’s pet is lost/borrowed/stolen and ends up serving as the catalyst for the sculpting of humans and their eventual realm.

A wonderful #Afropantheology creation story.

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The Very Nasty Aquarium by #PeterSBeagle

Guppies and duppies—this was no garden variety fin rot. “She had taught junior high school English and feared nothing.”

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Vanishing Point by #RJTaylor

For two exobiology surveyors, things are not always what they seem. A proper perspective doesn’t always help because sometimes your perspective isn't proper.

A slowly unrolling thread of my short #TooteReviews of my favorite stories in the July/August 2023 issue of #TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #fandsf #ScienceFiction #Fantasy

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That's it for the May/June F&SF.

Some powerful stories in this issue. I'm looking at you Fatima Taqvi and Kiran Kaur Saini!

You can read my TooteReviews all rolled up in a convenient compact form on Goodreads.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5553007512

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A Truth So Loyal and Vicious by #FatimaTaqvi

It ain't me, it ain't me

I ain't no fortunate one, no

- J. Fogerty


Fortune, fate and expectations are not always as straightforward as they first seem. A lushly drawn fantasy that has a lesson for all of us who are child and parent.

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Knotty Girl by #MelissaAWatkins

Marvelous mashup of a fairy tale and a myth which starts out mellow, then slowly descends into ominous terror. Don’t mess with the hair!

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Titan Retreat by #RiaRees


Trading a starry sky for thick red one can be a comfort for some. #FabulousFlashFic

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We are Happy to Serve You by #MargaretDunlap

The new food replicator was not made by Sirius Cybernetic Corp, but it might as well have been. Have a nice day! #FabulousFlashFic

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I Paint the Light with My Mother’s Bones by #KJAspey 


Will the worsening horrors of her existence push a hikikomori into leaving the safety of her cave? A disturbing, yet compelling story.

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Time and Art by Barbara Krasnoff @barbk

Would you trade hours or days from the very end of your life for hours or days RIGHT NOW?

Medical economists nod and say “DALY." Artists nod in agreement.

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For the Benefit of Mr. Khite by #ZigZagClaybourne


Post-singularity, a single entity tends to the remaining humans while Intelligences gradually abandon them. But who will tend to the entity? A sad story about being caught between.

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Highway Requiem by #TRNapper


I'm goin' out on the highway

Listen to them big trucks whine

White freight liner

Won't you steal away my mind?

- Townes Van Zandt


A trucker tries to make it against insurmountable odds, but money wants to make more money.