I bring you free fiction!
Jan. 8th, 2010 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talkstowolvesI really just made up my mind to start this yesterday, so forgive the paucity of this week's offerings! This week, I'm mostly just sharing stories that I have already read and recommended (but not lately) and one new offering: "The Horrid Glory of Its Wings" by Elizabeth Bear.
Now, I have sung the praises of the Interfictions Annex long and loud, but I'd like to inaugurate my first online fiction-oriented post by linking to my favorites in summary once more:
"To Set Before the King" by Genevieve Valentine - Of cooking shows and fairy tales, terrifying and strange.
"Four Very True Tales" by Kelly Barnhill - Of prose and poetry, true tales and ineffable fancies.
"For the Love of Carrots" and "The Luxembourg Gardener" by Kelly Cogswell - Of innocent, inanimate pornography, poetry and prose inextricably wound.
"Some Things About Love, Magic, and Hair" by Chris Kammerud - Of all imaginative creation, and a woman's hair.
"Quiz" by Eilis O’Neal - Of impossible questions and the hard choices present in every fairy tale.
If you've a bit of time, pick one or two and read them! Then come back here and tell me what you think.
I finally had a chance to sit down and read "The Horrid Glory of Its Wings" by Elizabeth Bear, published at Tor.com several weeks ago. With a title and character inspired by the harpy in Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, it concerns a very ill young woman and the filthy harpy that lives in the alley behind her home.
It is an incredibly ugly, bleak little tale and I'm not sure if it's redeemed by the fierce, transformative survivalism it advocates. It's provocative, for sure, but perhaps also a bit derivative. In short, my feelings are highly mixed and that actually increases the tale in my estimation. If you've read it, what do you think? I'd really like to discuss this one with others.
The illustration above - which I emphatically love - is the piece John Jude Palencar created to accompany Elizabeth Bear's story. You can see the bigger version at Tor.com.
Originally posted at Livejournal. You can comment here or there.
Now, I have sung the praises of the Interfictions Annex long and loud, but I'd like to inaugurate my first online fiction-oriented post by linking to my favorites in summary once more:
"To Set Before the King" by Genevieve Valentine - Of cooking shows and fairy tales, terrifying and strange.
"Four Very True Tales" by Kelly Barnhill - Of prose and poetry, true tales and ineffable fancies.
"For the Love of Carrots" and "The Luxembourg Gardener" by Kelly Cogswell - Of innocent, inanimate pornography, poetry and prose inextricably wound.
"Some Things About Love, Magic, and Hair" by Chris Kammerud - Of all imaginative creation, and a woman's hair.
"Quiz" by Eilis O’Neal - Of impossible questions and the hard choices present in every fairy tale.
If you've a bit of time, pick one or two and read them! Then come back here and tell me what you think.
I finally had a chance to sit down and read "The Horrid Glory of Its Wings" by Elizabeth Bear, published at Tor.com several weeks ago. With a title and character inspired by the harpy in Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, it concerns a very ill young woman and the filthy harpy that lives in the alley behind her home.
It is an incredibly ugly, bleak little tale and I'm not sure if it's redeemed by the fierce, transformative survivalism it advocates. It's provocative, for sure, but perhaps also a bit derivative. In short, my feelings are highly mixed and that actually increases the tale in my estimation. If you've read it, what do you think? I'd really like to discuss this one with others.
The illustration above - which I emphatically love - is the piece John Jude Palencar created to accompany Elizabeth Bear's story. You can see the bigger version at Tor.com.
Originally posted at Livejournal. You can comment here or there.