Category Archives: Short stories
Short stories
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Berkeley Noir (Akashic Noir Series) edited by Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill
(reviewed by JD Jung) “I arrived in Berkeley, back in 1991. A Berkeley that seemed to be still living off the fumes of the late sixties, which were fumes so strong you might just want to breathe them in all … Continue reading →
Miscreants, Murderers, and Thieves: a collection of short stories about devious behavior – edited by Samuel W. Reed
(reviewed by JD Jung) When I started reading Miscreants, Murderers, and Thieves, I was hoping for raw and gritty stories. I immediately discovered that I would have to change my expectations. Once I did that, I appreciated this eclectic collection. … Continue reading →
The Stone Building and Other Places – Asli Erdogan (Author), Sevinç Türkkan (Translator)
(reviewed by JD Jung) “When they’ve had their fill of despair, of stories, crimes, sins, confessions- each one the same as any other –they leave the back alleys behind and revert to their destiny, picking up where they left off. … Continue reading →