{"id":14658,"date":"2026-03-01T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14658"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:14:41","slug":"monthly-story-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14658","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Story Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read 6 books in February:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Good-Bye to All That<\/em> by Robert Graves<\/li>\n<li><em>Everything Is Tuberculosis<\/em> by John Green<\/li>\n<li><em>You Better Be Lightning<\/em> by Andrea Gibson<\/li>\n<li><em>What Feasts at Night<\/em> by T. Kingfisher<\/li>\n<li><em>Babel-17<\/em> by Samuel R. Delany<\/li>\n<li><em>Absolute Batman Vol 2: Abomination<\/em> by Scott Snyder et al.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I read 32 short stories in January. These were my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;A Brief Public Announcement&#8221; by Eli Brown (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Jennifer&#8217;s Daughter&#8221; by Sara S. Messenger (Nightmare)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Aquarium for Lost Souls&#8221; by Natasha King (Strange Horizons)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Medusa\u2019s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies&#8221; by Natalia Theodoridou (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Matriarchs&#8221; by Malena Salazar Maci\u00e1 (Fantasy)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Your Hold Is Ready&#8221; by Laura Duerr (Cast of Wonders)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Doppel Doppel Gang Gang&#8221; by Phoenix Alexander (Baffling Magazine)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Death Echoes Overlapping&#8221; by Megan Chee (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed&#8221; by Bree Wernicke (Bourbon Penn)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Spew&#8221; by Jeffrey Ford (Reactor)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Things We Bury in Each Other&#8221; by Timothy Ngome (FIYAH)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read 6 books in February: Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany Absolute Batman Vol 2: Abomination by Scott Snyder et al. I read 32 short stories in January. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14658\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14733,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658\/revisions\/14733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}