Monday, January 13, 2025

Polar Frost (among other Polar sodas) v. Sparkling Ice v. Cascade Ice v. Petey's Bing Beverages (refreshingly without ice nor rime) among other low/no sugar lines

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I'm a Type 2 diabetic (it runs in both lines of the family...I'm the lucky one thus in my nuclear fam), and I definitely love a good...
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Saturday, December 28, 2024

Wednesday/Xmas Short Stories: reviews and more: 25/27 December 2024

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John Boston: Amazing Stories , January 1970, edited by Ted White Ben Boulden: Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Ca...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Short Story Wednesday: Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini: FINAL WAR AND OTHER FANTASIES (Ace 1969) and IN THE POCKET AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION STORIES (Ace 1971) by Barry N. Malzberg: newly offered together; THE HANGING MAN AND OTHER WESTERN STORIES by Bill Pronzini, including one in collaboration with Marcia Muller; Stark House 2024

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Barry N. Malzberg,  July 24, 1939-December 19, 2024. Two sorts of retrospective, the kind of fine work Stark House continues to do...from tw...
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Monday, December 16, 2024

"She's Not There" (composed by Rod Argent) as recorded by The Zombies and others: Saturday Music Club (on Monday)

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The Zombies: "She's Not There"   Maeve Lander: "She's Not There" (for Brass Quintet)     Santana:   Neko Case ...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

"*true confessions*" by Vivian Fumiko Chin, BOSTON REVIEW, October/November 2003; "Release your emotions" by Chin, MOTHER OF ALL STORIES: ASIAN WOMEN UNITED 2017: Short Story Wednesday

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Courtesy LinkedIn Vivian Chin, as she signs herself to apparently her first published story, "*true confessions*", in 2003 in the ...
Friday, December 6, 2024

Books Received: COLLECTING MYSELF: THE UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF BARRY N. MALZBERG, edited by Robert Friedman and Gregory Shepard; CREAM OF THE CROP: BEST MYSTERY & SUSPENSE STORIES OF BILL PRONZINI edited by the author, Stark House 2024

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Three of my favorite new stories in 1978, not quite a half-century ago but not far from it, the year I started reading fiction magazines reg...
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