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Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel is published by Lethe Press.
This was a pretty solid collection of short stories. Some were very brief, only two or three pages, which I loved because I love flash fiction, and some were longer, like the title story, which was over 80 pages. You can tell the author spends (and probably has for a while) a fair amount of time on social media, from some of the jokes and stylistic choices. I liked it and thought it worked for the stories.
Multiple stories have an anger to them that was very satisfying to read, like "The Mark of Aegis," which begins "The first nice thing I ever did to my body was tear it open," and "Self Care," which was joyfully pissed off. I also really liked all the stories featuring a complicated relationship with bodies, especially "I Am A Beautiful Bug!".
The title story was probably my least favorite part of the collection, but it wasn't bad. Just not for me.
This was a pretty solid collection of short stories. Some were very brief, only two or three pages, which I loved because I love flash fiction, and some were longer, like the title story, which was over 80 pages. You can tell the author spends (and probably has for a while) a fair amount of time on social media, from some of the jokes and stylistic choices. I liked it and thought it worked for the stories.
Multiple stories have an anger to them that was very satisfying to read, like "The Mark of Aegis," which begins "The first nice thing I ever did to my body was tear it open," and "Self Care," which was joyfully pissed off. I also really liked all the stories featuring a complicated relationship with bodies, especially "I Am A Beautiful Bug!".
The title story was probably my least favorite part of the collection, but it wasn't bad. Just not for me.
