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READ THIS, BABY!

READ THIS ? a compendium of romantic speculative fiction from ezines

GODDESS, by Jon Hansen

Abyss and Apex has a lovely speculative romance, in flash form, up in their latest issue.

Goddess, by Jon Hansen manages to beautifully illustrate the complexity of fantasy love versus real love in the space of about 1000 words.

Read This: THE MOUNTIANS OF KEY WEST, by Sandra McDonald

Lone Star Stories features an exploration into desperation, temptation and, finally, contentment.

The Mountains of Key West, by Sandra McDonald is another cautionary tale: do you want the illusion or the real thing?

Read This: JUDY AND NORMAN, by Darby Harn

Reflection's Edge offers a selection that fits the Real Love theme, but isn't romantic love. Still, it's a moving and provocative read.

Judy and Norman, by Darby Harn, makes the point that love isn't about who you find it with, but about finding it when you need it most.

Read This: STAINS OF THE PAST, by J. Kathleen Cheney
"Stains of the Past" by J. Kathleen Cheney visits a Byzantine-esque fantasy world where a psychically-gifted courtesan changes her life when she falls in love with a stoic soldier with a psychic talent of his own. It's archived from the February issue of The Sword Review.

The strength of this story is the narrator's wistful, lyrical voice. And the hero made me ache a bit, for his plight. Not sure I enjoyed the message about sex, but many of you will appreciate the more mainstream theme about romantic love. Yeah, yeah, not all of you out there are as out there as me. So here's a good one for you.

Read This: BECOMING, by Rae Dawn Carson

Rae Dawn Carson captures the longing for and necessity of romantic love in her moving story, "Becoming," available now in Issue #18 of Abyss & Apex.

While the emotions touched me, the non-linear structure of the story captured me as well. Writing and reading only at novel length, you risk missing out on the clever ways that shorts use form, not just plot, to tell the story.

Read This: REPETITIVE STUPIDITY DISORDER, by Chris Bauer

Today's most ironic comment on the male brain: Repetitive Stupidity Disorder, by Chris Bauer, as featured in the current issue of Aberrant Dreams.

Read This: LOVE'S RESISTANCE (CROSSING THE WHEATSTONE BRIDGE), by John Borneman

Today's most poignant exploration of love and trust: Love's Resistance (Crossing the Wheatstone Bridge), by John Borneman, a poem featured in this month's From the Asylum.

Read This: THE SYNDICATE, by Jules Jones and Alex Woolgrave

For an off-beat romp, check out the stand-alone Prologue to The Syndicate, by Jules Jones and Alex Woolgrave, which has the delightful subtitle "Because Geeks Have Sex Lives Too?"

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