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Quickfic Anthology 1: Shorter-Short Speculative Fiction by Digital Fiction

just_hebah's review

2.0

I typically expect a short story collection to have hits and misses to it, but for me, this was mostly misses. There were a few fun gems in it like Brian Trent's "Sparg," a cute, sad sci fi story of a lonely alien who misses his people or Dan Campbell's "Where Sea and Sky Kiss," a folktale-inspired fantasy story with a love story at its heart. But a good many other stories felt like rough drafts at best, little more than concepts wrapped in awkward, amateurish prose. As a collection, the tales were unified only relative length and falling under the speculative fiction umbrella, which aren't necessarily enough to form a cohesive whole.

I received a copy of this free for review courtesy of Netgalley; this is an honest appraisal of the work. Truthfully, I'd give it more like 2.5 stars if I could because I did genuinely enjoy a few of the stories, but it was a lot of reading effort to get to them.