{"id":14732,"date":"2026-04-01T18:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14732"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:31:10","slug":"monthly-story-time-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14732","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Story Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read just two books in March:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Nobody&#8217;s Perfect<\/em> by Donald E. Westlake<\/li>\n<li><em>Billy Bathgate<\/em> by E.L. Doctorow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I read 32 short stories in March, missing just a couple of days. These were my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;An Honour to be Nominated&#8230;&#8221; by Jacob Seinemeier in <em>Escape Pod<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Warren&#8217;s Tentacle&#8221; by Susan Palwick in <em>Lightspeed<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom&#8221; by Angela Liu in <em>Uncanny<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Eat, Prey, Love: A Modest Proposal for Ensuring Gender Equality Through Selective Dietary Practices; or, a Geriatric Millennial\u2019s Guide to #GirlDinner&#8221; by Jilly Dreadful in <em>Lightspeed<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Wish You Died Laughing&#8221; by Lio Abendan in <em>Strange Horizons<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Walking Tour of Scarborough in Nuclear Winter&#8221; by Stewart C Baker in <em>Pseudopod<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Bridge&#8221; by Rory Say in <em>The Drabblecast<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Tide Folk&#8221; by Jennifer Hudak in <em>Lightspeed<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Espie Droger Dreams of War&#8221; by Matthew Kressel in <em>Lightspeed<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Sea Child&#8221; by Justin Wesley Ferguson in <em>Beneath Ceaseless Skies<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Once Fell in Love With a Jackalope&#8221; by Chase Anderson in <em>Small Wonders<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ananconfabulation&#8221; by Mar Vincent in <em>PodCastle<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Meet the Mets&#8221; by ace tilton ratcliff in <em>Escape Pod<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;All the Good You Did Not Do&#8221; by Jolie Toomajan in <em>Pseudopod<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Will Bring You Tokyo&#8221; by P.S.C. Willis in <em>Tales &#038; Feathers<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read just two books in March: Nobody&#8217;s Perfect by Donald E. Westlake Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow I read 32 short stories in March, missing just a couple of days. These were my favorites: &#8220;An Honour to be Nominated&#8230;&#8221; by Jacob Seinemeier in Escape Pod &#8220;Warren&#8217;s Tentacle&#8221; by Susan Palwick in Lightspeed &#8220;What We &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14732\">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-14732","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\/14732"}],"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=14732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14735,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732\/revisions\/14735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}