The Chimes by Anna Smaill – Review

Imagine a world where music is more than something you listen to, where music is the way that you find your way to places. Maps don’t exist and even if they did, would you remember how to read them without music to remind you how? Instead of moving quickly, you move presto. If time seems to slow, time goes lente. The world moves to the music in the most literal way that a society can manage.

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Hero Is A Four Letter Word by J. M. Frey – Review

The battle between good and evil is so familiar to us in fiction that we don’t often think to question it. Nobody doubts the evil of an empire garbed in black, or a super villain who looks like the devil and wants to control the world, but if good versus evil is an idea that’s simple and clear, J.M. Frey seeks to muddy the waters. In Hero is a Four Letter Word, Frey walks the boundary line between hero and villain with three fresh and inventive short stories.

[Full disclosure, I received a review copy of this short story collection from Story Cartel in return for an unbiased review.]

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