Favourite short stories for November

[zeborah]

Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers, by Alyssa Wong

Starts with the classic 'Creepy dude preying on women is fallen on by his intended prey' but then it continues and is creepy awesome.

Needle on Bone, by Helena Bell

I didn't at the start understand why the narrator's equating their lover with the aliens, but by the end: yes. Yes, and so poignantly.

Cradle, by Tom Jolly

Why do wildly different aliens so often subsist in such similar atmospheres to our own? That's not the point of this story, but it has an implicit answer to it anyway.

Comments

[choirwoman]

Please tell me how dark/creepy/horrorlike these are before I dare read any?

[zeborah]

The first is creepy; you probably wouldn't like it. The second, maybe if you squint really hard. The third, not even at all.

[choirwoman]

Thank you!