Frivolous Reviews - Short Stories - July 2026
Frivolous Reviews - Short Stories July 2026
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Review: Review For The Isle In The Silver Sea By Tasha Suri (2025)
What if characters decided not to play their parts, and could choose a different path, instead?
How to Write Compelling Fiction Using Point of View and Framing With examples from Hugo-nominated works
by Malina Douglas How can you tell a compelling story? Point of view and framing are two tools that can help, when used effectively. In Translation State, Ann Leckie shows us how to write three different points of view while keeping the tension taut on each thread of the story.
Empire State of Mind
He wouldn’t stop talking about some song he kept hearing: “There’s one every generation. No one knows where it starts, but soon it worms itself into every commercial, every corner shop and car radio...
(Sea) Serpents and Fallen Women
No matter what you call her, nearly every culture in the world has at least one story about a man-eating water serpent that either resembles or takes the form of a beautiful woman to lure her prey to their demise.
The Death of the Idea Man: Using Research to Develop a Story
I could have made up the details and simply forced it to work. I was inventing the town anyway. Would anyone besides me care? Would anyone even notice?
Review: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2024)
Rot can infect more than a house and its walls, sometimes it can also effect the people, within.
Case File 2500198
Eve asked if I thought it was really the crown like everyone’s been saying—the fabled crown of Dolerissand, lost a thousand years ago. I told her they were just rumors...
The Writer November Built: NaNoWriMo’s Legacy
And that’s the final thing it taught me. It taught me that I could do a very hard thing.
Three Card Caper
“You want me to prove this guy is cheating?” “Oh no,” says Atul, holding his hands up, palms facing me. “If he was cheating, we’d have caught him. We need you to prove he’s not cheating.”