Fly-by Free Fiction!
Mar. 4th, 2010 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talkstowolvesI promised you all two posts concerning free fiction this week, and I mean to deliver! Unfortunately, my TMJD really wrecked me last night and so now I only have ten minutes here before leaving the work to make this post. So! Without further ado, please check out the following stories:
"Baby in the Basket" by Cecil Castellucci (Strange Horizons 5/18/09)
This story is absolutely fascinating, beginning with a domestic hook that I never thought would work as well as it did and slowly drawing us into a world fundamentally-the-same-yet-radically-different from our everyday lives. I don't want to spoil the experience of discovering the differences and enjoying the bizarre revelations, so please: just read.
"Dead Man's Party" by Seanan McGuire (Edge of Propinquity, 02/15/10)
Sparrow Hill Road continues unfolding the story of the hitchhiking ghost Rose Marshall in the second installment of "Dead Man's Party." This is a locked-room story, brutally focused and unyielding. If I were producing a Sparrow Hill Road television series, this would be a strong candidate for an introductory episode: it gives readers a familiar entry point into the series via the diner hold-up and then gets weirder and weirder from there. Deeper into the twilight. "Dead Man's Party" is definitely a worthy continuation of the series and I'm still incredibly excited to see where Rose goes next.
This entry was originally posted at Livejournal on February 19th. You can comment here or there.
"Baby in the Basket" by Cecil Castellucci (Strange Horizons 5/18/09)
This story is absolutely fascinating, beginning with a domestic hook that I never thought would work as well as it did and slowly drawing us into a world fundamentally-the-same-yet-radically-different from our everyday lives. I don't want to spoil the experience of discovering the differences and enjoying the bizarre revelations, so please: just read.
"Dead Man's Party" by Seanan McGuire (Edge of Propinquity, 02/15/10)
Sparrow Hill Road continues unfolding the story of the hitchhiking ghost Rose Marshall in the second installment of "Dead Man's Party." This is a locked-room story, brutally focused and unyielding. If I were producing a Sparrow Hill Road television series, this would be a strong candidate for an introductory episode: it gives readers a familiar entry point into the series via the diner hold-up and then gets weirder and weirder from there. Deeper into the twilight. "Dead Man's Party" is definitely a worthy continuation of the series and I'm still incredibly excited to see where Rose goes next.
This entry was originally posted at Livejournal on February 19th. You can comment here or there.