Michele-Lee Barasso

Read:

-- Berries by Joanna Pinto (6/17) - 4* Berries growing over tombstones are picked and baked into pies and sweets. Nighttime dreams of those who ate the sweets will reveal facts about the person whose graves are there.
-- Drunk Scentless by Joel C. Scoberg (6/22) - DNF I guy has the superpower of smell. I started the story but lost interest.
-- Parallel Lifetimes by C.J. Heckman (6/29) - 5* A man has visits in a machine to his parallel lives. In each one he meets a girl a different way but always the same girl and she becomes his wife. In his current life she has died long ago and never met. https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/virtual-reality/c-j-heckman/para....

Other stories this month:
-- The Hungry Unseen by Sandra Kleinschmitt (6/1) 1st published story
-- ApocaList: The Surprising Origins of 7 Everyday Words by Alexei Collier (6/2)
-- Final Warnings in Open Fields by Xander Odell (6/3)
-- Ali Knows the Future by Karl El-Koura (6/4)
-- Two Certainties in Life by Hannah Awbrey (6/7)
-- In My Tower by Mary Soon Lee (6/8)
-- To Go Forth in Mail-Shirt and Shield by Adam Stemple (6/9)
-- So We Did by Hannah Yang (6/10)
-- The Princess Gets to Choose by Jenny Rae Rappaport (6/11)
-- 2020 by Sean Vivier (6/14)
-- Claire de Lune by D.J. Rozell (6/15)
-- Up-Up-Down-Left-Right by R. Mac Jones (6/16)
-- The Centurion by C.M.F. Wright (6/18)
-- Invasive Species by G. Allen Wibanks (6/21)
-- Portrait of a Lady Vampire by Christopher J Burke (6/23)
-- Preface to "Monster Hunter" by Mary Soon Lee (6/24)
-- What Togetherness Day Means To Me by Leah Cypess (6/25)
-- City-Above, City-Below by Aimee Ogden (6/28) 11th story for dsf.com
-- I Brought My Dragon to Show and Tell by David J. Rank (6/30)… (meer)

They offer flash fiction every business day of the month.

Read:
-- Leaf Piles by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
It was alright. Author note: One of the possible Wordos' Halloween prompts for 2020 was "Ghost guests."

-- Hero by Frances Koziar
DNF - too much going on and history inbetween the lines. Not holding my attention.

-- Anti-Quarantine by Jeffrey Lyons
haha. Author note: As an introvert, the pandemic lockdown measures and isolation didn't phase me as much as they did extroverts. I wondered what kind of threat could cause the reverse, namely an enforced togetherness with no alone time. The result is this story.
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I've been reading and subscribed to DSF.com for a while now but for 2022, I'm taking a break.… (meer)

They offer flash fiction every business day of the month. So far I only read these:

-- Real Enough by Nina Kiriki Hoffman -
a woman meets a version of her mother in her dreams

-- Mom? I think I'm broken. by Crois M. -
a grown robot/child reflects on changes in mother's behavior
as they grow and how it makes them feel.

-- Where Lies the Final Harbor by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam -
I guess there is some similarities to Moby Dick but this one is in space and involves a Bot travelling through our space above earth. I hated it, mostly because I couldn't really follow it.

-- The Red Queen by Shannon Fay -
and this is why I read her stories. A maiden tells says goodbye to the unicorn on her wedding night but it says the next time they see each other they'll both be changed.

-- Beyond Our Grasp by Simon Pan -
We meet a father and daughter at the end of their life as their about to be sucked into a black hole or something. Not for me.… (meer)