For my full length review, and review of individual stories, please visit Casual Debris. New Ghost Stories II includes eleven original short stories and a reprint of a medieval poem. Overall I did not enjoy it as much as previous issues, nor as much as their first ghost stories anthology, but ther...
For my full review, and reviews of individual stories, please visit Casual Debris. The latest issue of The Fiction Desk features fifteen stories compressed into 136 pages. No, the font is not shrunken as my opening sentence seems to imply, but instead volume five contains short short stories, incl...
For my full review, and reviews of individual stories, please visit Casual Debris.The latest issue of The Fiction Desk features fifteen stories compressed into 136 pages. No, the font is not shrunken as my opening sentence seems to imply, but instead volume five contains short short stories, includi...
For my full-length review, please visit Casual Debris.Still strong after three issues. No single stand-outs as in previous issues but not one disappointing story. My favourites are "Blind" by Harvey Marcus, "The Rocket Man" by Benjamin Johncock, "The Maginot Line" by Matt Plass... you know, they're ...
Having enjoyed the stories included in Various Authors, and having been introduced to various authors, I was looking forward to The Fiction Desk's follow-up, All These Little Worlds (which for a few months I kept mis-reading as All These Little Words). No matter, since the anthology contains nine wo...
There seems to have been a number of new journals appearing over the last little while, and many others promising to appear soon. The quality of these journals tend to be a little all over the place, especially when first starting out, attempting to recruit talented writers, uncover good slush, and ...