Spec Rec #212

January '21 Recommendations

Feb 11, 2021

Update as of 03/14/21: I won’t be publishing Spec Rec on Substack anymore. Look out for my recommendations on my website or Twitter.

The January recommendations are coming to you a little later this month because there were so many stories and poems to read and choose from. Mermaids Monthly and Dark Matter Magazine released their very first issues with amazing tables of content, while Apex Magazine is back with its first issue after their hiatus and Apparition Lit published an incredible justice themed issue #13, which I recommend you to read in its entirety.

Recommendations

“Last Stop on Route Nine” by Tananarive Due
in Nightmare #100
🚗 Trusting the lesser evil for survival.
“A Billion Bodies More” by Sloane Leong
in Dark Matter Magazine #001
🦿 There’s no escape.
“For the War Effort” by Rachel Rodman
in Daily Science Fiction
🔥 The future is in our hands.
“With the Nectar Comes the Sting” by Jennifer Hudak
in Apparition Lit #13
🐝 What it really means to be a superhero.
“Civilization” by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe
in Star*Line #44.1
🤖 The sacrifices of civilizations.
“Medusa Gets a Haircut” by Theodora Goss
in Uncanny #38
🐍 Some things are meant to be.
“Alecto Chats On Her Smoke Break” by Elizabeth R. McClellan
in Apparition Lit #13
✊ Justice slumbers in our veins.
“Root Rot” by Fargo Tbakhi
in Apex Magazine #121
🌺 Take my blood and hope I wilt.
“From Witch to Queen and God” by L. D. Lewis
in Mermaids Monthly #1
👑 All the right words, unspoken.
“The Risk of Embarking” by Lynne Sargent
in The Future Fire #2021.56
🏔️ The (dis)comfort of decisions being made for us.
“Tabula Rasa” by P.A. Cornell
in Departure Mirror #2
📓 To be forgotten is to disappear.

My recommendations are based purely on personal taste and interests, which is why I don’t rate them and put them in no particular order.

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