Read: The Best Thing You Can Steal (Simon R Green): Doesn’t seem to explicitly be a “Nightside” novel, but it’s very much in the same Green genre with people on the lam from both Heaven and Hell and whatnot. A thief puts together a heist against a terrible collector of powerful artifacts, without telling his team the entirety of the plan (as is traditional for masterminds).

Read: Lumberjanes vol 1 (Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, Brooke Allen): Summer camp with yeti, lake monsters, underground complexes full of traps and logic puzzles, and general eccentricity. Makes little sense, but is very charming!

Read: Dragonbreath (Ursula Vernon): Adventures of an elementary-school dragon who has much more imagination than sense, and his long-suffering iguana sidekick.

Read: Dragonbreath: Attack Of The Ninja Frogs (Ursula Vernon): Further adventures, with ninjas and samurai. Apparently dragons get the special bus pass.

Read: “Synthetic Perennial” (Vivianni Glass): Oddly, people have strong feelings about being brought back to life, and also about other people being brought back to life.

Read: “Hush” (Mary Anne Mohanraj): A human acts in a non-racist fashion, even though she doesn’t have to, even though she could easily hate aliens, even though it puts her at risk.

Words: 408 kitten words, a little revision.