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Originally Posted by cromag
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And now, back to some selected shorts.
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I'm still filling odd moments in my schedule with short(er) works. I read several more pieces, including some stories in the most recent Analog and Asimov's issues.
Two of the titles that I think deserve special mention are My Terminal Moraine, by Frank R. Stockton, and Repairing the Sky, Tales of Myth and Magic from Old China, by Dorothy Trench Bonett.
I first encountered Frank R. Stockton when I was a teen. He wrote a collection of "historical" stories about New Jersey that I enjoyed. My Terminal Moraine is available
here at Mobileread. It's classified as a Romance, but I don't think it would qualify in contemporary terms. It's a fun story about a likable underachiever who changes his ways to win the girl next door. But, I suspect the Geology at the heart of the story is ... unreliable.
Repairing the Sky, Tales of Myth and Magic from Old China, by Dorothy Trench Bonett, is brand new at Smashwords. I'm a fan of mythologies of various cultures and don't know too many from China. Ms. Bonett is apparently a translator and poet, and did a good job. (NOTE: There are a few typos. No worse than I used to encounter in mass market paperbacks back in the early 60s, but be aware.)
I'll be reading more short stories for a while, but things may (finally!) be approaching "manageable."