/fantasy/tags/short-stories/ Recent content in short-stories on River's Fantasy Reviews Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 19 Feb 2022 08:38:46 +0000 /fantasy/five-magic-spindles/ Sat, 19 Feb 2022 08:38:46 +0000 /fantasy/five-magic-spindles/ <em>Five Magic Spindles</em> is a collection of five retellings of <em>Sleeping Beauty</em>. They range from fairly traditional (the second one, extremely skippable) to barely recognizable as a <em>Sleeping Beauty</em> retelling (the first one) to somewhere in between (the rest). <em>Sleeping Beauty</em> is a hard fairy tale to do a good retelling of, but perhaps that&rsquo;s why (other than the one that&rsquo;s a very faithful retelling) these retellings ended up so incredibly goddamn cool! /fantasy/phoenix-first-must-burn/ Fri, 29 Oct 2021 05:30:14 +0000 /fantasy/phoenix-first-must-burn/ Technically this is a DNF review; I only read the first five stories, to complete non-hard-mode Bingo, but I wasn&rsquo;t intending to read the entire anthology unless I <strong>really</strong> enjoyed the first five stores that I read, and I didn&rsquo;t. I&rsquo;m not really a fan of short stories in general, and these weren&rsquo;t particularly captivating.