The biggest detriment to any overall short story collection is often that the stories are, more or less, highly similar to each other in many ways - style, tone, themes, etc. For a good collection, this is perfect, since you're guaranteed to like most, if not all the stories. For a bad collection...
IT ALL DEPENDS on the conditions of the wash. On the twentieth wash in hot water with a strong detergent, a delicate shirt is known to split at the seams. However, mix the same shirt in with cool water and the proper cycle, and the shirt can last five times as long. A miracle of modern fabric tec...
The first was a rash made to climb up her arm like a creeping vine. She saw it when she was cleaning a breakfast dish and set down the soap to idly scratch. “What in the fine hell,” she said. It was a poor curse and performed in a hurry. If she had consulted the proper sources, she could have sto...
Missy played some calming spiritual music and lit a candle. Chastity winced, feeling the wood floor under her thin mat. “I want the kind of man who goes looking for a war,” she said. Missy aligned her hips up and back for Downward-Facing Dog. “There’s a few wars out there ...
