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A review by foomple
Apex Magazine September 2018 by Jason Sizemore
4.0
Reviewed solely for Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali's Talking to Cancer and Naomi Kritzer's Field Biology of the Wee Fairies
Muhammad-Ali's piece is heavy and emotionally complex, with just the right amount of magic/dreamery for the subject she's working with-- those broad strokes are things it has in common with the first short fiction of hers I encountered, a piece called "She Searches for God in the Storm Within" that I caught on a Podcastle episode. Kritzer's piece is by contrast lighhearted in tone and endeared me thoroughly; the subject and ending had me muttering "fuck yeah" in sympathetic triumph.
Muhammad-Ali's piece is heavy and emotionally complex, with just the right amount of magic/dreamery for the subject she's working with-- those broad strokes are things it has in common with the first short fiction of hers I encountered, a piece called "She Searches for God in the Storm Within" that I caught on a Podcastle episode. Kritzer's piece is by contrast lighhearted in tone and endeared me thoroughly; the subject and ending had me muttering "fuck yeah" in sympathetic triumph.