Category Archives: Short stories
Short stories
Send Her Back and Other Stories -Munashe Kaseke
(Reviewed by JD Jung) This collection will captivate you as soon as you start reading. “Send Her Back” is just one of twelve riveting tales centering around women who immigrated to the U.S. from Zimbabwe. In that specific title, a … Continue reading →
Posted in African Literature, Culture, Immigration, Our Best, Short stories, World Issues
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Tagged Africa, culture, illegal immigration, immigration, Zimbabwe
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The Newlyweds’ Window: The 2022 Mukana Press Anthology of African Writing – Mukana Press (Compiler)
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “Mukana” is the Shona translation for “opportunity”, and the mission of Mukana Press is to provide the opportunity for writers in underrepresented areas to show their work to a world audience. So, what is the … Continue reading →
Posted in African Literature, Short stories
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Tagged Africa, family, fiction, short stories
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Rainbow Rainbow – Lydia Conklin
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned I must admit that I am ignorant of many of the gender classifications, so I hoped that Rainbow, Rainbow would educate me. That said, I found these ten stories that center around queer, pansexuality and … Continue reading →
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction, Short stories
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Tagged book reviews. fiction, LGBTQ, short stories, transgender
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Paris Noir: The Suburbs: Akashic Noir Series – Hervé Delouche (Editor)
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “Where was French romanticism? The opulence of the West? I found Paris—Pantin, really—very different from what I had imagined. I found Pantin ugly…”. An Albanian national flees his country in fear for his life and … Continue reading →
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, French Literature, Noir-esque fiction, Our Best, Short stories, World Literature
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Tagged French literature, French noir, immigration, Paris
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My Monticello – Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “My whole life, it seems, there’s been a revival of hatred and violence toward people who look like me. Waves of men have surged into our town from all over the state, the country.” This … Continue reading →
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction, Short stories
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Tagged culture, family, gender, multiculture, race, racism, society
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Blind Dates: Weird Stories – Harambee K. Grey-Sun
Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned Being close to Halloween, I was in search for a good horror read. So, when I started reading these stories, I was expecting them to center on blind dates gone tragically wrong. Or maybe the … Continue reading →
Posted in Dark/Sordid/Bizarre, Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Mythology, Short stories
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Tagged eclectic, horror, love, short stories, speculative fiction, supernatural
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Things I Have Withheld – Kei Miller
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…the place where I have always felt most comfortably gay is in Jamaica. In Jamaica, I know the language and the mannerisms of queerness. In Jamaica, I know how to dance. In Jamaica, I do not … Continue reading →
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Immigration, Short stories, Social Justice, World Literature
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Tagged Caribbean literature, gender, LGBTQ, race
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Barcelona Dreaming – Rupert Thomson
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “His discovery that I had been seeing a Moroccan immigrant half my age shocked him even more than the fact that I was implicated in my next-door neighbor’s death. He believed I was trying to destroy … Continue reading →
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction, Short stories
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Tagged addiction, Barcelona, class, illegal immigration, race
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Eat the Mouth That Feeds You – Carribean Fragoza
(reviewed by JD Jung) “Since always, our paths had been broken. And yet we insisted on finding our way back to each other.” Yes, families can have a strange and complex dynamic. This is but one major theme in the … Continue reading →
Posted in Short stories, Skinny reads
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Tagged Chicanx literature, latinx, short stories
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Lost Horses – Mark Saha
(Reviewed by Don Jung) Mark Saha writes about his characters in a snappy fast-paced style about life and their horses. This is a collection of seven short stories that indirectly talks about how man has replaced the companionship of a … Continue reading →
Posted in Historical Fiction, Short stories
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Tagged horses, short stories
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