Online Alien Stories

No bushwalking today as we all baulked at getting wet. Though I don't mind the rain as I have a new rain jacket, guaranteed waterproof. But no one else was keen and, well, reading and writing is just as good.

Instead I messed around reading online fiction and was quite impressed with the stories I read on Strange Horizons. I like stories about aliens and thought two stories by a writer from Nova Scotia, Joanne Merriam, were excellent. Joanne is also a poet and some of her poems are up at her website and worth checking out. Two stories that I especially liked were Little Ambushes (about an alien who is visiting Earth in order to learn the basics of human art) and Harvest (an alien abduction story). Both are quite short and economical, a pleasure to read, and show a whole lot more than the sum of their parts.

I also liked The Girl From Another World by Leah Bobet which is more about alienation, but very nicely done.