This setup posed some challenging questions: how do you get justice after all that? Is justice any different than retribution? I loved getting to experience a fantasy world from the perspective of a court of law. So many fantasy stories are concerned with wars, warriors, nobility, and magicians, which can be tons of fun, but I really appreciated reading a story set after the war, dealing with fallout and repercussions of it. The first thing I loved about this story was the setup. Now, years later, he’s on trial, and his daughter, Elusia, has been called as a witness to testify against him. Eventually, at the end of the war, the Allegiance stormed Fort Beatitude, captured Bloodrain, and destroyed his army of tiktok soldiers. At Fort Beatitude, he amassed his clockwork army and prepared to take over the world. Bloodrain murdered hundreds (thousands?), extracting their blood and their souls to create tiktok soldiers who didn’t feel pain or need sleep. Versus Bloodrain thought he could rule the world better than anyone else, and therefore believed that he deserved to. “One Day, My Dear, I’ll Shower You with Rubies” by Langley Hyde It’s a warm, beautiful portal fantasy that left me thinking about ethics and gender. Finally, I loved “Our Side of the Door” by Kodiak Julian, which appears in Lightspeed Magazine Issue 96 (May 2018).
It’s thoughtful and deeply unsettling in the very best way. Want a story about a succubus in the age of social media? Check out “Sucks (to Be You)” by Katharine Duckett, which appears in Uncanny Magazine Issue 22 (May/June 2018). This story is challenging, unique, surprisingly real. She won’t forgive him, and he won’t apologize. In “One Day, My Dear, I’ll Shower You with Rubies” by Langley Hyde, which appears in Podcastle Episode 520 (May 1, 2018), a genocidal wizard is put on trial years after the war, and his daughter is called to testify against him. This month, I have two stories that will give you heavy, negative feels (but in a good way, I promise!), and one story that can probably cheer you up afterward.
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