Use the discussion board to find readings on and talk about specific topics. Browse and edit the bookshelf (on the menu to the right) to find books by subject. What follows is a surprisingly suspenseful and lushly written story that tackles the messy intersection of love, death and obsession.This is a group to read and discuss anarchist practice and theory, by gathering a large body of anarchist literature, non-fiction, and theory, as well This is a group to read and discuss anarchist practice and theory, by gathering a large body of anarchist literature, non-fiction, and theory, as well as a wide array of histories and analysis from intersecting movements for mutual aid, direct action, and the dismantling of oppressive hierarchies.Īlso see the list and genre on Goodreads. In exchange for luring unscrupulous men into the hungry clutches of a mermaid, our narrator is gifted what coin his victims carry-and the mermaid’s love. This light-hearted adventure presents an engaging and uniquely southeastern vision of alternate America.įinally, Margaret Killjoy weaves a haunting love story in “Into the Gray,” which opens to our narrator, a thief, fulfilling a macabre arrangement. In the midst of a getaway, an outlaw discovers his companion and trusty steed-a hippopotamus of his own custom breeding-is wounded, in Sarah Gailey ’s “Worth her Weight in Gold.” At a local doctor’s, our outlaw is challenged to forfeit the glittering temptations of loot in exchange for his companion’s treatment. The prose, though leaning into the verbose at times, takes on an elevated, storybook style that is often as melodic as its subject matter. The city of Owl Abbas is vividly characterized with aptly chosen details.

Together, the duo’s melodies capture the citizenry’s attention-and then the Little Emperor’s. The voice belongs to a new arrival, a mechanical man tasked with saving the heart of the state. Music sparks revolution in Kathleen Jennings ’s “The Heart of Owl Abbas.” A songwriter overhears a neighbor’s melodic voice and, freshly inspired, calls upon a lingering ghost to ferry lyrics across the way. e., the mental toll that accompanies foreknowledge of one’s future) may be familiar, yet works well to tidy up the story’s driving questions in a bittersweet, satisfying ending. The reveal that follows, though delivered with little agency on part of our protagonist, sets forth intriguing world-building. Life unfolds pleasantly until, while pursuing a promising new relationship, she wakes to her hand scribbling unfamiliar letters, which twinkle and linger on the air. Despite the handwriting’s quirks, she adopts it as her own. Her and her ex-boyfriend’s turbulent break-up deepens the mystery. In Johnathan Carroll ’s “Played Your Eyes,” a woman is bequeathed a former boyfriend’s handwriting-a new, flowing script that produces the occasional cryptic message. Tor.com presents a diverse set of four stories this month.

Into the Gray by Margaret Killjoy