Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch
10 best books like Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch (Kelly Barnhill): A Cup of Salt Tears, Brimstone and Marmalade, Among the Thorns, A Kiss With Teeth, In the Sight of Akresa, Triquetra, These Deathless Bones, The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections, Selfies, Daughter of Necessity
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...
| Author | Aaron Corwin |
| ISBN | 1466856394 |
Just in time for Halloween, we have a funny, sweet, and slightly skewed short story by Aaron Corwin, an up-and-coming writer from Seattle.
All Mathilde wanted for her birthday was a pony. Instead, she got a demon. Sometimes growing up means learning that what you think you want is not always...
| Author | Veronica Schanoes |
| ISBN | 1466868929 |
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...
I'm upping my rating from 4.5 stars to 5 stars on rereading this Tor.com online freebie. I love this story! Vlad the vampire is married to a human (in fact, the woman who was originally hunting him down!). They have a young son, and Vlad tries to live like a regular human, denying his darker self and powers....
| Author | Ray Wood |
| ISBN | 1466868996 |
Claire's lover has no tongue. A slave liberated from a heathen temple, Aya cannot tell the story of her stolen voice, or of her and Claire's unfolding love. She cannot speak her pain, her joy, or her sorrow. And if she sees that which eludes the blind goddess of justice, she cannot bear witness. "In the Sight...
"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...
“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...
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
| Author | Tina Connolly |
| ISBN | 1250296994 |
Nebula nominee for best novelette in 2018! 4.5 stars for this excellent Tor fantasy story, free online here at Tor.com. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:
Saffron is one of the official food tasters for Duke Michal, the regent for an infant prince. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind...
| Author | Lavie Tidhar |
| ISBN | 1466879882 |
In the last picture, I’m dead.
this is one of the best "covers" that these delightful tor shorts have produced so far, but in this case, the artwork is better than the story. don't get me wrong, it's not at all bad; it's a great idea, but i just thought its execution was a little unfocused. i loved...
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...
Blue Morphos in the Garden
| Author | Lis Mitchell |
| ISBN | 1250241294 |
Read Lis Mitchell's magical realist tale, Blue Morphos in the Garden, a Tor.com original short story. When Vivian and her daughter witness the family matriarch die without leaving a corpse, Vivian can no longer ignore the family "gift" or the choice that lies before her.
At the Publisher's...
