Did Chicago write this?

Even though I didn’t go to the office yesterday, I had to get up early to see the new shade of yellow, so today my brain was very small. Smaller than usual, I mean.

Read: “Olga” (CT Adams): Youth and stolen artifacts are still no match for old age and cunning, especially in a wizard duel.

Read: “Sweetheart” (Abbey Mei Otis): In case you missed the memo, bigotry sucks, even when it’s against literal aliens.

Read: “Fare Thee Well” (Cathy Clamp): A summer internship at a morgue is unusual, but MC did not expect it to be that unusual.

Read: Deadly Weapon (Adira Slattery, Fen Slattery): A strange game about having a magic gun and there being demons that you could shoot, but the more bullets you’re holding on to, the greater your superpowers

Read: “Dislocation Space” (Garth Nix): I think I read this one before. A WWII Russian sniper with a circus contortionist background (would anybody buy that for an RPG character?) is sprung from the gulag to explore a very unusual tunnel.

Read: Descendant Machine (Gareth L Powell): I dunno, I feel like the entire civilization of post-human entities should have been able to figure that out without needing a random wild-type human who’d barely been thinking about the problem for a few million seconds. Also, C20 cultural references, although the humans were abducted from Earth in mid-C21 or so, so it’s not quite as bad as some.

Read: “The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree” (Michael Swanwick, Eileen Gunn): Faerie crimes and childhood and adulthood and memory. It reminded me a bit of Diana Wynne Jones.

Write: 192.