Come See the Living Dryad

10 best books like Come See the Living Dryad (Theodora Goss): A Cup of Salt Tears, Among the Thorns, A Dead Djinn in Cairo, Waiting on a Bright Moon, The City Born Great, Triquetra, Into the Gray, These Deathless Bones, A Human Stain, Daughter of Necessity

AuthorIsabel Yap
Makino’s mother taught her caution, showed her how to carve her name into cucumbers, and insisted that she never let a kappa touch her. But when she grows up and her husband Tetsuya falls deathly ill, a kappa that claims to know her comes calling with a barbed promise. “A Cup of Salt Tears” is a dark...
AuthorVeronica Schanoes
ISBN1466868929
They made my father dance in thorns before they killed him.

I used to think that this was a metaphor, that they beat him with thorny vines, perhaps. But I was wrong about that.

They made him dance.

this free tor short is based on the grimm's tale The Jew in the Thorns , which is...
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
AuthorP. Djèlí Clark
ISBN0765389444
Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine. What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi leads...
Waiting on a Bright Moon
AuthorJ.Y. Yang
Xin is an ansible, using her song magic to connect the originworld of the Imperial Authority and its far-flung colonies— a role that is forced upon magically-gifted women “of a certain closeness”. When a dead body comes through her portal at a time of growing rebellion, Xin is drawn deep into a...
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.

Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient...
Triquetra
AuthorKirstyn McDermott
"Triquetra" by Kirstyn McDermott is a dark fantasy novelette about the fraught relationship between Snow White and her stepmother after Snow White has married the prince and has her own child. She visits her stepmother monthly promising to kill her in ever more horrible ways, at the same time attempting...
Into the Gray
AuthorMargaret Killjoy
ISBN1250198178


“I know a better place than your room at the inn,” I said.

“If you’re not a working girl, there’s no shame to be seen with you.”

“I know a place, a better place, where the wind runs cool off the water. Where I can rinse, where you can rinse, where we’d taste our best...
AuthorCassandra Khaw
“I hate you.” I crouch in front of him. “You have no understanding as to how much. You charmed little prick.”

I have to say I agree with this statement when I read about the horrific little brat kid and all of the things the stepmother was telling us he did. He deserved to boil!



He...
A Human Stain
AuthorKelly Robson
ISBN0765392798
2017 NEBULA FOR BEST NOVELETTE!! I TOLD YOU GUYS THIS WAS GOOD!

Under one of the beds she found a thin rib from a rack of lamb, riddled with tooth marks. Somewhere in the house was a dog. She’d have to take care to make friends with it.

i have gotten really REALLY bad about reviewing these...
Daughter of Necessity
AuthorMarie Brennan
i do love stories like this - stories that take a well-known work as their foundation and then poke around in it to locate the parts of the story that stick out in our minds as unfinished or unexplored. where the heck did heathcliff go for those three years? what were bertha and miss havisham like before all...
The Martian Obelisk
AuthorLinda Nagata
ISBN1250162408
This is a 2017 Hugo nominated SF short story, free to read online here at Tor.com. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

In another tale that explores human choices in the face of apocalyptic events, Susannah Li-Langford is an eighty year old architect who has spent the last seventeen...
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