Review Strange Libations

I was a Kickstarter backer on this (or it was a stretch goal for an Apex mag kickstarter - I can’t remember). Since these are micro-fiction I am not going to do my usual per-story review for the anthology as the stories are too short for that.

Perhaps unsurprisingly for an anthology themed around recipes for alcoholic drinks, the stories were overwhelmingly sad and/or angry. Since each story is only about a page long, this might be a good anthology to dip in and out of. Reading it straight through was a bit much. Also, some of the themes are repeated in a way that is made more obvious when reading it straight through.

With those small critiques aside, I think these individual bits of micro-fiction are all pretty great on their own. I think they each take the assignment of turning a drink recipe into a story and tweak it in their own ways to create some truly haunting tales.

I’d recommend picking it up.

• Micro-Fiction