Short Fiction Review: December 2023

My four favorite stories from December are all quite different. While the first three stories all do something interesting with the perspectives used to tell the story, the fourth story doesn’t. Instead, it just tells a good story with good characters.
Book Review: Resurrections, by Ada Hoffmann

Resurrections shows a wide range of subject matter, themes and topics; nearly all of the pieces are interesting and engaging, and some of them are breathtakingly gorgeous and moving.
Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all our followers from the Skiffy & Fanty blog team! … Please let us know if there are things in 2024 that you are particularly looking forward to, or if there are any topics or features you’d like to see here on Skiffy & Fanty.
Book Review: Rosalind’s Siblings, edited by Bogi Takács

If you missed Rosalind’s Siblings when it was published in September 2023, please consider adding it to your reading list for the new year. It’s a very interesting anthology of speculative fiction and poems, containing some fascinating ideas and characters and some really beautiful language.
Book Review: Grievers by adrienne maree brown

Though filled with melancholy and exhaustion, Grievers is filled with a regard of simple beauty and hope.
Book Review: Chasing Whispers by Eugen Bacon

African-Australian writer Eugen Bacon … writes poetry that can propel with prose-like narrative, while she constructs prose with a playful, poetic touch: fluid lines that invite readers to dance among possible meanings and interpretations, evocative words that sing out to strike emotional chords.