Flash Fiction Ex: Fandom Promo

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Flash Fiction Ex is a semi-flash exchange for written canons such as flash fiction, short stories, and novelettes (no longer than roughly 30,000 words)! Tell us about the stories you hope to see requested or offered. 

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The Destroyer - Tara Isabella Burton

The official blurb: "In a futuristic, fascistic Rome, a brilliant, unstable scientist proves that she can transcend the human body’s limitations. The test subject? Her own daughter. A mother-daughter mad scientist story, “The Destroyer” asks how far we’ll go to secure our own legacies — and how far we’ll run to escape them."

My review: a look at the complicated feelings of a daughter for her abusive, unstable, genius mother, growing up into a woman as her mother replaces her (the daughter's) body with cybernetic parts, one by one. Content note, ROT13 encoded for spoilers: oybbqyrff znff qrfgehpgvba bs rirelbar va n pvgl.

The Court Magician - Sarah Pinsker

A dark fantasy story about ambition and the real costs of real magic. Content note: gur pbfg vaibyirf gur zntvpny, cnvayrff ybff/qvfnccrnenapr bs crbcyr, zrzbevrf, novyvgvrf, obql cnegf, rgp.

The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library - Tobi Ogundiran (this links to a recording of LeVar Burton reading it--I haven't been able to find it online)

Official blurb: "A hapless salesman flees the librarian hell-bent on retrieving her lost library book."

My review: set in Nigeria, this is a fun story in which the horror creeps up on the main character. Content notes: orvat chefhrq, rngvat zlfgrevbhf fznyy perngherf nyvir, obql ubeebe (n furq uhzna fxva)