Posted by William Cliffe on September 2nd, 2010 at 1:40 pm

 “Throwing Stones” by Mishell Baker is our final story in review for this week.

A splendid story of role reversals; a cultural flip-flop in a matriarchal fantasy world where the male presence is as simple as a whim to women’s desire.  Poetic writing percolates the ambiance evoked by the first-person narrative of our protagonist, whose secret is as dangerous as heresy.

Reading  this instilled a semblance of understanding for the plight of our ill-conceived gender-based roles in society. Intimate prose wove together a tapestry of experimentation, forcing the mind to question the very existence of our dedication to segregating roles based on any manner of differences.

Provocative and inventive, “Throwing Stones” is a story that reaches inside your veil and understands dreams you try to conceal.

Stroll on over to Beneath Ceaseless Skies to take a read through this one.

Posted by William Cliffe on September 1st, 2010 at 1:40 pm

 “The Territorialist” by Yoon Ha Lee is our bone riddled story in review today.

This fast-paced action adventure takes a wildly imaginative run through a “second world” of which the physical laws and implications of such are deeply entangled.  Vivid in its intensity; dark as the dead of night.  Imagine a world so explicitly detailed that its own nature belies disbelief and instead entangles you in fear that this world, intense in its bearing, is real.

A story of fear and of deadly consequence; of duty bound to honour; of life bound to something sinister. Truly a fun romp through a world I don’t ever want to wake up in without my fifth bullet and a guard’s understanding of the intricacies of the territory. Give me more stories, though.

Slide on over to Beneath Ceaseless Skies to read this one.