#story collection

[small-z24]

Master List:

One-Shots:

Baking Mishaps

Bat Boys Babysitting Adventures

Shadows of Confession

Gentle Shadows

Shadows of Destiny

Bargain in the Shadows Pt. 1 Pt. 2

Shadows Entwined

Through the Shadows

A Dance in the Shadows

The Breaking Point

Shattered Prophecies

Heat of the Moment

A Shadow’s Legacy

Shadows of Fate:

Part 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Love in the Shadows:

Part 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

(Last Updated: 06/02/24)

[labelleizzy]

Hello if I'm not mistaken you used to be a librarian? And I know librarians have a reputation for being able to find obscure books based on poor descriptions. I don't know if that's true for you at all but I thought I'd give it a shot.

Back in high school when I was devouring the sci-fi/fantasy shelves from top to bottom, I remember checking out a book of short stories. They were all based on the premise of regulars at the bar telling shaggy-dog-type stories to each other that all ended in absolute GROANWORTHY puns, but there was also enough interaction between the various recurring characters that you started to learn about their backstories, like why they all hung out at this bar in the first place. The main guy was there because he'd changed the brakes on his family car and a little while later, the breaks had failed, killing everyone except him - but at some point he gets told that it absolutely wasn't his fault, that it was something else that failed, by a character who would have been able to know that.

I don't remember any specifically overt sci-fi elements of it (in my mind it was just a regular bar with regular people) but I think there might have been a reveal at some point that one of the patrons was an alien?

I'm not certain of when the stories were published, but if I had to guess I'd say around 70s-80s? Definitely can't be quoted on that though.

But if you have any ideas for where I might figure out how to find this book and/or author, I'd love to hear it

Oooh. This sounds like something I might have read, but no titles or authors pop up in memory. I would have enjoyed such a series, I'm sure!

Any other book hounds wanna take a crack at searching for this?

[ladzwriting]

Get The Short Story Bundle Here

If you're a fan of horror, fantasy, or some mix in between, here is a collection of my six stories available on itch. For just $3, you can get them through Tuesday.

Read below the cut to get a preview of all the stories and find a new favorite

[yourpixieandbuddy]

happy birthday to my worst selling but personal favorite book i’ve released. “cry, baby” today you turn a year old. i have thought about unpublishing you many times over this last year; you are cringey and chronically online. i have published #1 new releases, a bestseller, and over 3000 copies of a children’s book…im pretty sure you sold under 100 copies.

and yet you’re still my absolute favorite piece of writing i have ever had on display. you were exactly what i needed when i called out for change and i love you so deeply, in the tormented writer kinda way.

you’re obnoxious just like me and wonderful. i can’t wait to grow from you and learn to be more proud of you.

happy one year: cry, baby has somehow survived the imposter syndrome and desire to unpublish and still available on amazon. wouldn’t it be funny to have it trending a whole year later??? (teehee you can bully me later about the passages that shouldn’t made it to publish, god knows robbie does regularly)

[shadow-words]

Book Review: Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik

_Book Review; Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik_ An interesting collection of #fantasy and #sciencefiction stories.

This collection of short stories range from Austen/Temeraire crossovers to disturbing fairy tales set during the Black Plague. Novik’s style of writing is sharp, intelligent and on occasion, sardonic and a little sarcastic. I enjoyed most of the stories, and as usual with my other story collection reviews, I’m going to be reviewing the stories that stood out the most to me. After Hours This…

[draganwhorror]

I bought a book...

[maverick-werewolf]

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[ijustkindalikebooks]

Review: A Sunny Place For Shady by Mariana Enriquez.

Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood and Argentina's brutal past.

I do always find this author's work intriguing, so when I saw her latest collection on Netgalley, I asked if I could read it and I'm glad I did as we get a new collection of weird, dark and political stories that reflect the lives of different women in horrifying and twisted ways.

I do think the stronger half of this are the first two stories - the characters she creates and shines a light on, are people I think I've met and so many I've met, that these stories feel like you're walking into a scene of people that you know and that she has written with pinpoint precision into these stories which make for story that really pull you in and allow you to live in them.

The tone in these stories vmake you feel like these stories are being told to you and just you alone, like you are in on this book from the beginning and something important is being shared with you on every page. This sort of autumn campfire energy creates a sort of menace in these stories that draws you in, especially in Face Of Disgrace in particular, which builds the tension until the very last line of the story.

Sure there are stories where I'm sat there thinking 'what did I just read?' but all in all this is a great collection that took me some time to read because these stories can really get to you. I'd definitely check for trigger warnings with these stories as they cover a range of things that effect women, violence against women in particular is something that is a major part of many of these stories.

I need to read something light after finishing this.

(Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC for honest review).

[pensivegladiola]

The Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar

[words-and-coffee]

I look up at the store, at it’s windows, for her face. There was only the moon, like a death mask.

Camilla Grudova, The Doll's Alphabet: The Moth Emporium

[storycollecter96]

SUMMER DREAM 

The cold has ended, and now we are free,

After all the hardship, we are as strong as a tree,

Come, let us give this moment our all,

We know better than to be afraid of the fall, 

Let us drink, eat, laugh, and dance, 

Come on, let us not miss our chance, 

It is a time to have fun, 

After all, this is the season of the sun, 

I swear to make these summer days ones you will not forget, 

Swear to me that you will enjoy it without regret, 

I know, my love, I know, this world keeps spinning, 

But remember, no matter what, it is up to us to keep living.

[brightbeautifulthings]

The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo

"She was nothing and no one, a girl on her knees with prayers on her lips, full of terror, full of rage."

Year Read: 2023

Rating: 2/5

Thoughts: If you’re offended by religious critiques, best not to read on. Bardugo showed herself to be an exceptional short story writer in The Language of Thorns, but where I felt that collection could easily stand on its own as well as provide a rich depth to the folklore of the Grishaverse, The Lives of Saints does neither. I'm struggling to understand its purpose outside of a blatant cash-grab, and the only reason to have it would be if you were planning to write really in-depth Alina or Inej fanfiction.

There's nothing about this that stands out, including the art. It's smudgy and boring like the kind of religious art you see in children's books and magazines in a dentist's waiting room, which in that sense suits the content perfectly. The stories are all similar and forgettable, and if you've ever read a martyr/saint story from actual history, you've got the gist of all of these. I already can't remember a single one specifically, not even the ones who turn out to be characters in actual Grishaverse books. The Alina story is... barely Alina's story? and just left a bad taste in my mouth, and there was heavy eye-rolling in the Darkling's (which, to be fair, is my usual response to him). If Bardugo was trying to show they're all bullshitty propaganda in-universe, then job well done.

[beardedharmonypanda]

Guys, tell me what you were obsessed with or did or loved as a kid. For me, i was obsessed with Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory, I wanted to be like Willy Wonka and own the chocolate factory as I loved chocolate. Or just fabricate a memory you think would be cool. I'm collecting stories, i would like to hear yours. Or simply tell me what you wanted as a kid. I'm looking for inspiration. I am dedicating a whole journal for this. I will write each story I receive in it.

[bastionofbibliophiles]

I'll add: we built robots

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[kenni-silas-inked-ambitions]

Hey Everyone! When you purchase my book, Shivers Down My Spine, you'll also receive a complimentary download of another one of my short stories, Fate's Redemption!