Quick Sips - GigaNotoSaurus July 2020

The July GigaNotoSaurus is out and it’s...well, not exactly the happiest of easiest of stories. It deals with entrapment, with power, and with abuse is some very visceral, very wrenching ways, placing the child main character under the power of an affluent abuse asshole in a historical setting where the kind of abuse she faces isn’t exactly illegal, as long as the victim is poor, and the perpetrator wealthy. And into that very fraught arena the story takes some bold strides, shaping a story that could so easily be a tragedy and not quite getting there. Ultimately giving the main character some choice, and some power, and a future where she might be able to run free. To the review!

Quick Sips - Shimmer #45 [September stuff]

September’s Shimmer Magazine releases two very different stories—stylistically, thematically, and tonally. And yet I guess at their core these are stories about three people. In each, a man and a woman meet under slightly unusual circumstances, brought together because of their shared connection to an absent man. And in both, these people who meet awaken something in each other, in such a way that it feels that there’s really no going back afterward. Of course, in one of these cases this is a wrenching, difficult experience. And in the other, it’s a fun and bloody romp. But it’s a very interesting pair of stories, and I’ll get right to the reviews!

Art by Sandro Castelli