A review by thomaswjoyce
And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe by Gwendolyn Kiste

5.0

This is an amazing collection. I already knew Kiste was a fantastic author, having read a couple of her longer works. But her short stories are just as impressive. I appreciate the difficult topics she explores through her fiction, including women's rights, LGBTQ rights, domestic horror, grief, and how she combines these with her incredible imagination to deliver some truly effective horror tales. There are a lot of good authors out there, and there are some whose depth of imagination and ability to tell an otherwise straightforward story in an original and fascinating way (seriously, check out "The Man in the Ambry") leave me reeling with awe and envy. Darkly poetic and breathtakingly beautiful, Kiste's prose can fill you with equal parts wonder and terror.