For the first time since starting Spec Rec, I wanted to recommend a lot more stories and poems than I could fit on two pages. To get to the final 11, I had to re-read some pieces several times and in the end, it just came down to what I like reading the most at the moment. I still plan on doing other great things with the ones that didn’t make the cut. Nearly all of the recommended pieces from March are about returning to nature, while the cover story for Fusion Fragment deals with another passion of mine: women’s anger. Strange Horizons released their Palestinian special issue, for which I considered adding a third page.
Recommendations
- “A Vial of Electric Blue” by Vanessa Fogg
in Fusion Fragment #5
- “Modern Promethea” by Meg Elison
in Nightmare #102
- “Barefoot and Midnight” by Sheree Renée Thomas
in Apex Magazine #122
- “The Bletted Woman” by Rebecca Campbell
in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Issue Mar/Apr 2021
- “The Center of the Universe” by Nadia Shammas
in Strange Horizons, Issue 29 Mar 2021
- “Black Box of the Terraworms” by Barton Aikman
in Apex Magazine #122
- “Winter’s Song” by Spencer Nitkey
in Fusion Fragment #5
- “Drifting From Her Lunar Ruin” by Sloane Leong
in Dark Matter Magazine #002
- “Notes on a Resurrection” by Natalia Theodoridou
in PseudoPod #749
- “How Do You Grow?” by Jennifer R. Donohue
in Hexagon #4
- “art exhibition: west bank girl on fire” by leena aboutaleb
in Strange Horizons, Issue 29 Mar 2021
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Vanessa Jae 