i usually enjoy anthologies and short story collections but this one did feel like a chore to get through — most of the stories weren’t that exciting and i did end up skipping a few. which i usually don’t like doing. but i don’t think i’d ever have finished this if i hadn’t. 

some of the stories were genuinely very good and i think id have enjoyed reading them outside of the anthology collection. 

teeth by stephen graham jones 

unkindly girls by hailey piper 

cavity by theresa delucci 

one of these nights by livia llewellyn

the donner party by dale bailey

a sunny disposition by josh malerman

but as a whole i don’t think it worked for me. which is a shame because the idea behind it was really interesting and there’s a bunch of great authors in the mix. 

/// ARC courtesy of tachyon publications and netgalley.