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A review by badseedgirl
Swift, Brutal Retaliation by Meghan McCarron
3.0
Welcome to Day 3 of my 2021 25 Days of Short Stories Christmas Advent Calendar. Each day I will be reading a short story from the collection of over 600 short stories and novellas available for free on Tor.com. This is a collection of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. I will be letting fate (and the random number generator) decide what I read each day.
Day 1: [b:The Art of Space Travel|30532462|The Art of Space Travel|Nina Allan|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1558040356l/30532462._SY75_.jpg|50826910] by Nina Allan
Day 2: [b:These Deathless Bones|35506557|These Deathless Bones|Cassandra Khaw|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1498282454l/35506557._SY75_.jpg|56914935] by Cassandra Khaw
Day 3: Swift, Brutal Retaliation by Meghan McCarron (Trigger warning: Emotional abuse of children and women)
So my random number generator seems to like the ladies, and that’s just fine with me. Swift, Brutal Retaliation was nominated for a 2012 Nebula, and a 2013 World Fantasy award. This short story was a bitter little pill to swallow. The family dynamics touched something very dark and disturbing in me. There is something so very sad about this family. Not just about the death of a child and sibling. This family was well and truly screwed before the son died. Although this was a very well written story about a truly dysfunctional family, I’m not sure I want to read another story like this one for my Christmas Advent. I felt this story should have a trigger warning.
You can read it for free here , but maybe wait until after the holiday’s to do so.
Day 1: [b:The Art of Space Travel|30532462|The Art of Space Travel|Nina Allan|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1558040356l/30532462._SY75_.jpg|50826910] by Nina Allan
Day 2: [b:These Deathless Bones|35506557|These Deathless Bones|Cassandra Khaw|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1498282454l/35506557._SY75_.jpg|56914935] by Cassandra Khaw
Day 3: Swift, Brutal Retaliation by Meghan McCarron (Trigger warning: Emotional abuse of children and women)
So my random number generator seems to like the ladies, and that’s just fine with me. Swift, Brutal Retaliation was nominated for a 2012 Nebula, and a 2013 World Fantasy award. This short story was a bitter little pill to swallow. The family dynamics touched something very dark and disturbing in me. There is something so very sad about this family. Not just about the death of a child and sibling. This family was well and truly screwed before the son died. Although this was a very well written story about a truly dysfunctional family, I’m not sure I want to read another story like this one for my Christmas Advent. I felt this story should have a trigger warning.
You can read it for free here , but maybe wait until after the holiday’s to do so.