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Trying real hard to microreview a story every day. Anon because I probably won't make it and I hate public shame.

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My tastes right now skew heavily towards the optimistic with a particular emphasis on overlooked issues and the experiences of marginalized folks.

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Informed Consent Logs from the Soul Swap Clinic, Sarah Pauling in Clarkesworld. Creative format, subtle build, very nice. https://t.co/lNwLUuitnZ

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Villainy: A Reluctant Memoir, Erin Rockfort in Translunar Travelers Lounge. Self-aware narration on identity, villainy, and choices - it's my jam. https://t.co/yRMPXYUYcu

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Magical Girl Burnout Bingo, by Lauren Ring in Lightspeed. This one got me. https://t.co/vRfjjBgI3x

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How to Safely Store Your Magical Artifacts After Saving the World, Tina Connolly in Uncanny. Beautiful, heartfelt, shouldn't have read at work because it made me tear up. https://t.co/sNvMphjnSm

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French Press, by Marissa James and Matthew McPike in Translunar Travelers Lounge. Delightful - love the world building on the edges, and a very satisfying conclusion. https://t.co/GZiDQowntM

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@janeen_mathisen I see it as a combination of tropes from science fiction and fantasy that just goes all-in on both, so there's spaceships and also magic and fairies and maybe demons and sometimes blasters and faster-than-light travel because why not!

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A Record of Our Meeting With the Grand Faerie Lord of Vast Space And Its Mysteries, Revised, by A.T. Greenblatt in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.I love kitchen-sink science fantasy, and this has such lovely prose and vivid concepts and basically I love it. https://t.co/d3FlCNxHmQ

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Oil Bugs, by Gwen C. Katz in Translunar Travelers Lounge. Excellent epistolary storytelling, thoughtful extrapolation, funny in the way that satire is funny when you're only like 50% sure it's not real. https://t.co/1xAze97TMn

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For Sale: One Unicorn Saddle, Mostly Disenchanted, by Aimee Picchi in Translunar Travelers Lounge. I missed that TTL had a new issue out, and this story was like a balm on my soul. https://t.co/tV0nkr0E1j

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Fourth Nail, by Mur Lafferty in Escape Pod. I loved Six Wakes so it's not super surprising that I loved this too, I guess. Just such fascinating world building a out what social and legal changes cloning and mindmapping would require.

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An Address to the Newest Disciples of the Lost Words, by Vanessa Fogg in Lightspeed. Beautiful prose, deft mixing of melancholy and hope. Absolutely lovely. https://t.co/NBf8zrBPfh

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To Embody a Wildfire Starting, by Iona Datt Sharma in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Absolutely lovely. It reminded me in the best possible way of The Goblin Emperor: quiet but deeply emotional, painful but undeniably hopeful. https://t.co/sNax7LB1ZO

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The North Pole Workshops, by Mari Ness in Uncanny Magazine. Excellent environmental storytelling; I'm a sucker for epistolary and this had me giggling. https://t.co/nIHI4zXxHS

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To Exhale Sky, by Shingai Njeri Kagunda in Baffling Magazine. Absolutely beautiful. It manages to contain multitudes in so few words, vivid and delicate. Got me a bit teary eyes at the end, ngl. https://t.co/FQPK8UQSET

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Pod 530217-A, by Emma Lindhagen in @BafflingMag. Evocative and packs a whole lot into a short work about the promises and failures of technology and how to honor a life. Has me craving pork schnitzel while wondering whether cryogenic revival is feasible. https://t.co/6EY2X2Zd90

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The Cold Calculations, by Aimee Ogden in Clarkesworld. Aimee Ogden and utterly dunking on The Cold Equations: two great tastes that taste great together! Already going on my best of 2021 list. https://t.co/5aRo3sDE2R

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Girls Have Sharp Teeth, by Genevieve Mills in Fantasy Magazine. Man, I just love stories about girl stuff, and this one has the whole range of it: girls supporting each other, girls not supporting each other, girls kind of being awkward. Also: fangs. https://t.co/lP4HrPSVEJ

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To Reach the Gate, She Must Leave Everything Behind, by Izzy Wasserstein in Lightspeed. Dang. An excellent example of the power of writing back to a source material. I can't believe this is just a flash piece when it holds so much. https://t.co/LmqFyqsqc0

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The Long Tail, by Aliette de Bodard in Wired. A lovely, hopeful (but creepy at times if you're a coward like me) story about generations, trauma, and war. https://t.co/25Jjo7vcFt

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@theworldshesaw Oh it fully got me through those revisions! Thanks for sharing such a great story!