{"id":21427,"date":"2016-03-23T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2016-03-23T10:04:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:04:32","slug":"kind-words-for-my-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21427","title":{"rendered":"Kind Words for My Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to the reviewers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quicksipreviews.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/quick-sips-uncanny-9-march-stuff.html\">Quicksip reviews<\/a> writes about &#8220;Love Is Never Still:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s mythic in its scope and in its characters but there\u2019s also something deeply human about it (something that can be said about a lot of Greek mythology, I suppose), something that shows how love can lift up and love can shatter. The characters are compelling even as they are presented in breathes, brief touches that become a tapestry of longing and violence and design. The two storylines balance each other quite nicely, showing love as pursued, and women especially as objects that aren\u2019t really considered people, are there to be fought over or prayed for.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnwiswell.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/great-things-i-read-in-february.html\">John Wiswell<\/a> writes about &#8220;Between Dragons and Their Wrath:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No short story has haunted me more in the last month than this. The dragons are a metaphysical terror, casting a shadow of mutations across the landscape of two absolutely lovely characters. With scenes whipping by, each has a punch, even in the last line.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reviewing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=popmatters-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=external-search%3Fsearch-type=ss%26index=books%26keyword=nebula+awards+showcase+2015\">The Nebula Showcase 2015<\/a>, Craig Owen Jones writes that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popmatters.com\/review\/nebula-awards-showcase-2015-by-greg-bear-ed\/\">The Nebulas are not about elitism, but about giving a platform to good sci-fi stories<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As usual, there\u2019s much here of worth. The winner of the Best Short Story category, Rachel Swirsky\u2019s \u2018If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love\u2019, is a moving and elegiac tale of lost love. Elegantly expressed and formally perfect, it builds delightfully to its poignant climax.[.]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to the reviewers. Quicksip reviews writes about &ldquo;Love Is Never Still:&rdquo; It&rsquo;s mythic in its scope and in its characters but there&rsquo;s also something deeply human about it (something that can be said about a lot of Greek &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/2016\/03\/kind-words-for-my-stories\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21427\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-21427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21428,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions\/21428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}