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Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier has a small group of people constantly hyping it up, and the hype is deserved. In fairness, I am exactly the right sort of reader for a “building relationships across cultural and linguistic barriers” story www.tarvolon.com/2025/11/06/f...

Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier has a small group of people constantly hyping it up, and the hype is deserved. In fairness, I am exactly the right sort of reader for a “building relationships across cultural and linguistic barriers” story www.tarvolon.com/2025/11/06/f...

And today, I’ll add “Now You See Me” by @justinkey.bsky.social, with some intense Twilight Zone vibes and an engrossing (if disturbing) fantastical exploration of both Black invisibility and hypervisibility in American culture www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/now-...

And four from an unusually long Magazine Minis (thread linked here) bsky.app/profile/tarv...

I had one standout from my Clarkesworld review: bsky.app/profile/tarv...

As always, let’s do a thread of my favorite short fiction I read last month

These results from Manhattan looking very promising

As always, let’s do a thread of my favorite short fiction I read last month

Rich Larson's LOL, Said the Scorpion from Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol 2 is one I'll be thinking about for a while. Great worldbuilding. Creepy and innocuous setting. Great ending. The ramifications of future technology in mundane places. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

He just asked if the moving guy is in basketball.

Here with a roundup of what I read and reviewed in October, as always including some enthusiastic short fiction recommendations: www.tarvolon.com/2025/11/03/o...

And Louisville is going to make it not matter. Serves us right getting to this point I guess

Let’s go, Bay I guess

Woah Manaka!

Meredith Speck!

The four year-old just asked “who is the moving guy in soccer?” It took a minute to realize he meant the motion man in football, which does not apply to NWSL

I wish I were more of a baseball fan than a football fan because the baseball people are having fun and I am miserable. Sports are bad, kids

This game is nothing but missed opportunities. On offense and defense

This is going to be a blowout or we’re going to be here in the fourth quarter cursing all these missed opportunities

That’s a real nice release there, Mr. Nadeau

The Nine by Tracy Townsend is an underrated gem of 2010s fantasy www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/28/f...

Short Fiction Book Club is having our monthly discussion! Stop by to share your recent favorites, swap story samples, suggest future sessions, and discuss your favorites of the year so far. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

“Woman Like Stone Like Water” by Malda Marlys also nails the mythic voice, while also telling a close, personal tale in a prehistoric setting. Engrossing. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/woma...

The Nine by Tracy Townsend is an underrated gem of 2010s fantasy www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/28/f...

Switching to something a bit more mythic, “Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed beautifully layers seven tales into something that changes the lead and truly inspires hope for the future, even in a dangerous present kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

Also involving memory and the ending of a relationship is “Whale Fall of Yours” by M.M. Olivas, a nonlinear tale with love, regret, and giant space leviathans www.uncannymagazine.com/article/whal...

I love memory stories, and I love the way that Ray Nayler handles slow-paced, meditative works, so it should be no surprise that Catch a Tiger in the Snow, about memory editing and relationships ending, was a favorite of mine

I’ve got another magazine review up! It’s a pretty long one, so check out my thread of favorites…

I’ve got another magazine review up! It’s a pretty long one, so check out my thread of favorites…

My second magazine review of the month dips into stories from Apex, Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Kaleidotrope, and Uncanny, finding several to highly recommend: www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/27/t...

I regret to inform you that Boozer appears to be a problem

Chatfield has had a couple tonight that looked like potential goals

followed by a much less-nice hour, of course

good opening frame on the road from Vols and Canes. After an awful sports week, it was a nice hour or so

Deserved that one after getting robbed on the previous two-on-one and then the double-doink from Chatty

hell yeah, sepe!

using illegal and unconstitutional accounting gimmicks to keep paying the military so that you can deploy them to launch illegal and undeclared wars in colombia and venezuela while the rest of the government remains shut down is getting pretty close to the Very Bad scenarios

Was a nice time for a lighter story that still had some themes. I really enjoyed If Wishes Were Retail by Auston Habershaw www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/24/f...

“In Luck’s Panoply Clad, I Stand” by @phoebebarton.bsky.social has some sharp commentary on states offering sympathy for disaster without going particularly out of their way to help, but the real star is the tremendous portrayal of survivor’s guilt clarkesworldmagazine.com/barton_10_25/

I reviewed some short fiction. Short favorites thread (okay, just one this post)…

Was a nice time for a lighter story that still had some themes. I really enjoyed If Wishes Were Retail by Auston Habershaw www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/24/f...

I reviewed some short fiction. Short favorites thread (okay, just one this post)…

Feels like it's been ages since I got magazine reviews posted, even though it's really more like three weeks. Anyways, here is an overdue review of this month's Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus: www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/22/t...

Feels like it's been ages since I got magazine reviews posted, even though it's really more like three weeks. Anyways, here is an overdue review of this month's Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus: www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/22/t...

Looks like the pub date got pushed up, so Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon is already out! www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/19/f...

Knocked another book off the "how haven't I read this already?" list. Howl's Moving Castle is very fun. www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/16/f...

Knocked another book off the "how haven't I read this already?" list. Howl's Moving Castle is very fun. www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/16/f...

Come join today's session! We have a great slate and love seeing new people in the discussions. Today's stories are: - Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh by Marie Croke - The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead by E.M. Linden - If You Want to Erase Us, You Must Be Thorough by L. Tu