Tiptoe, by Laird Barron Read it here in 15 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… This story mixes the everyday with the creepy. From the first paragraph, we have a mixture of comics (normal), playing catch (normal), and shadow puppets (moving towards creepy). The shadow puppets are made up of standard animals (normal) andContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
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A short story I recently read
Where Memory Meets the Sea, by Laia Asieo Odo Read it here in 10 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… This story intrigued me from the beginning, as it opens with a description of a group of characters who routinely go to the sea shore and stand in the waves in order to rememberContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
A short story I recently read
The Funeral, by Mahreen Sohail Read it here in 10 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… This story is set in Pakistan (the author’s home country) – a country I’ve never been to, and a culture I’ve don’t know much about – this means there are elements that I don’t recognise, such as theContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
My top 3 of 2025
After a long hiatus, I restarted blogging about my favourite short stories half-way through 2025. Here are some of my favourite novels from my 2025 reading, to join those short stories: On the Calculation of Volume I, by Solvej Balle (trans. Barbara J. Haveland) This novel is the first of a series, which will eventuallyContinue reading “My top 3 of 2025”
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