A woman who finds messages inside dead birds...the terrifying mystery and truth of a living swamp...a whisper in the weld. Shimmer 2014: The Collected Stories collects Shimmer Magazine's 14 stories from our first fully digital year, under one beautiful cover from Sandro Castelli.
E. Catherine Tobler has written an awful lot of things. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Sturgeon Memorial Award, the Nebula Award, the Utopia Award. Her work on Shimmer Magazine was nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
This review is for A Whisper in the Weld by Alix E. Harrow only.
Another amazing story from the most exciting new writer I have read this year. This is an earlier effort from 2014.
Isa dies in a tragic accident at the mill. She yearns for her dead husband, (killed in the war) but her main priority in protecting their orphaned daughters from a life at the mill. Her ghostly love encircles them.
I don't think I can say more without spoiling this evocative and stunning story.
Another beautiful story for Alix E. Harrow. If she ever compiled a book of her short stories, I'd buy them in an instant!
This story is about the strength of a ghost, who was once a mother and a wife. Dead she might be, but not without a lot of a determination to do right, somehow.
Beautiful short story about a widowed witch, whose dead husband sends her letters from beyond the grave inside birds. A new take on the tradition of reading the entrails, when a paper and ink letter can be found within them...