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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next up: another random choice: Fantasy Magazine #3. Part of a bundle of the magazine issue bought in June 2015.
(Random choice was actually a later issue, but in the case of series, I'm always going to drop back to the next unread one.)
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"Manuel and the Magic Fox" by Ekaterina Sedia was delightful.
"Black Eyed Moon" by Darby Harn was good but sad
"Salt Wine" by Peter S. Beagle was brilliant (but a bit sad)
"Watch Dog" by Hannah Wolf Brown was OK but sad
"Susano's Comb" by Jeannette Westwood was OK but sad.
"The Dawn Walker" by Marly Youmans I didn't really get, but sad.
"Boy On A Bicycle" by M. Thomas was just sad.
"There is no Rice Pudding In the Sea" by Anna Tambour was quite weird but quite good.
"The Green House" by Sandra McDonald was OK. And with a hopeful ending.
"Trees, Like Candles, Dripping Wax" by Resa Nelson was good. And not sad.
"Fortunate Brave" by Leslie Claire Walker was weird and too short to make sense.
"Hungry Ghosts" by M. E. Palmer I didn't like, and was too long, and sad.
The ratio of stories I enjoyed to one I didn't enjoy or actively disliked wasn't really high enough. 3/5 overall at best. It may be some time before I read #4.
I see I rated #1 and #2 as 3/5 as well. If the next is just so-so, I think I might abandon the whole lot.
Next up: another random choice:
The Prince Commands: Being Sundry Adventures of Michael Karl, Sometime Crown Prince & Pretender to the Thrown of Morvania by Andre Norton.