Stories! with a theme of kindness

[sonia]

Watershed by Allison Jamieson-Lucy. I love the natural world details in this story, and the way strangeness sneaks in a little at a time. Most of all I love how it centers on kindness of one person for another.

via rushthatspeaks. The rest of the stories in their list were all too violent for my tastes.

A cluster of kind stories, list by Rose Lemberg.

Links from Rose's post:
(1) Amal El-Mohtar, "Pockets" in Uncanny Magazine.

(2) Sara Norja, "The City Beneath the Sea," in "An Alphabet of Embers".

(3) Charles Payseur, "A Lumberjack Guide to Dryad Spotting" in Flash Fiction Online.

(4) Darcie Little Badger, "Owl vs Neighborhood Watch" (Strange Horizons).

Amal El-Mohtar recommended a poem - "Questions to Ask Yourself before Giving Up" .

Sara Norja recommended "Rab the Giant versus the Witch of the Waterfall" by Brian M. Milton (Fireside).

Charles Payseur broke the rules a bit and recommended TWO stories, "Black, Their Regalia" by Darcie Little Badger (Fantasy Magazine) and Bogi Takács' "Forestspirit, Forestspirit" (Clarkesworld).

Darcie Little Badger recommended stories by Claudie Arsenault in Solarpunk Press, such as "The Daisy Haunt."

Bogi Takács recommended "Emily Breakfast" by Nalo Hopkinson (from her collection "Falling in Love with Hominids").

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Oh thanks so much. Kindness needs all the marketing it can get.

[sonia]

Yes! And you're ready with the perfect icon.

[asakiyume]

I'll try "Watershed." I tried a couple of the others in Rushthatspeaks' list, ones that sounded appealing to me, but neither really worked for me. I'll also take a look at Rose Lemberg's list!

[sonia]

I'm guessing that "Watershed" will be right up your alley. I'll be curious to hear what you think.

[asakiyume]

You were right! I really loved that one! Thank you!

I really liked the relationship between the two of them, and I liked how it ended; it felt really true to me. If Koha had gone to the sea or Ihiteru had stayed behind for good, that wouldn't have been right. Koha's resolution to care for future river walkers, even though they won't be Ihiteru, is a really deep way of showing love.

[sonia]

Smiling that you liked it! Thanks for putting your response into words. I responded like that too, but felt rather than in words.

I liked Ihiteru's playing with power over water, too. I thought it was interesting that she had a choice whether to take up that power, and that lets her straddle the line between the water walkers and other folks.