Stories! After surviving
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soniaWhere the Sky Is Silver and the Earth Is Brass by Sonya Taffe (sovay). I think I missed a bunch of references in this brief story, even with a good grounding in Yiddish phrases. It refers to a lot of terrible things, but I liked the feel of it. Like maybe things can get better after all, after surviving terrible things.
On the luxury of deep thinking by Penny Wednesday. This is nonfiction. "Finally, when the burden of worry was lifted, presence could take hold."
the seasons of the ansarac by Ursula K. Le Guin. This was my favorite of the stories from "Changing Planes", with the people who migrated a long distance as a whole culture between one big city and a spread out agricultural area.
Pre-Apocalyptic Meeting Minutes, a poem by Marissa Lingen (mrissa).
Another great list of short story recs bymrissa Pandemic Spring Edition.
I started reading from the bottom of the list, and liked the first three I landed on!
Gender and Other Faulty Software by John Wiswell
Alien Invader or Assistive Device? by John Wiswell
An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands by Fran Wilde
Also, Ambient and Isolated Effects of Fine Particulate Matter by Emery Robin, even though or maybe because it so exactly conveys some of what we're going through these days, in a setting I'm familiar with. The ending... not sure if it shifted into fantasy, or allegory, or hallucination.
sovay). I think I missed a bunch of references in this brief story, even with a good grounding in Yiddish phrases. It refers to a lot of terrible things, but I liked the feel of it. Like maybe things can get better after all, after surviving terrible things.On the luxury of deep thinking by Penny Wednesday. This is nonfiction. "Finally, when the burden of worry was lifted, presence could take hold."
the seasons of the ansarac by Ursula K. Le Guin. This was my favorite of the stories from "Changing Planes", with the people who migrated a long distance as a whole culture between one big city and a spread out agricultural area.
Pre-Apocalyptic Meeting Minutes, a poem by Marissa Lingen (
mrissa).Another great list of short story recs by
mrissa Pandemic Spring Edition.I started reading from the bottom of the list, and liked the first three I landed on!
Gender and Other Faulty Software by John Wiswell
Alien Invader or Assistive Device? by John Wiswell
An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands by Fran Wilde
Also, Ambient and Isolated Effects of Fine Particulate Matter by Emery Robin, even though or maybe because it so exactly conveys some of what we're going through these days, in a setting I'm familiar with. The ending... not sure if it shifted into fantasy, or allegory, or hallucination.
