A Year of Stories Black Coral eBook Steve Spalding
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At the beginning of 2016, Steve Spalding -- author of Founder's Saga and creator of the popular podcast Steve Reads Stories -- challenged himself to write one piece of short fiction, every weekday, for a full year. This collection, Black Coral, is the second in a series of books to chronicle that journey.
Inside are twenty original tales, ranging from a literary fiction piece about two men, a tombstone, and a road trip many years in the making ("The Headstone of Leslie Ann Michaels"), to an urban fantasy short that gives a look at the entrance exam to a very exclusive, very dangerous college of magic ("The Weisz Insitute").
After every story, Steve gives insight into his inspiration, the writing process, and the challenges of 2AM editing sessions.
Black Coral is a book for anyone who adores quick fiction with an edge, stories that can make you laugh or think or feel, while being short enough to be read in a single sitting. It's a book for lovers of literature, and genre buffs alike, and it's one that we hope you enjoy.
A Year of Stories Black Coral eBook Steve Spalding
The first story was very odd to me. I needed to say that.But then came a Breakroom Memo from the "that person" employee - a memo that anyone who has ever worked in an office community can relate to...
"I bought three Snickers bars from the Cash and Save last week, and placed them in the crisper for safe keeping...When I checked the following Monday, during my weekly audit of office supplies and sundries, there was only one Snickers bar...while I don’t want to start a witch hunt, and it’s not fair to point fingers without proof, I think Debra knows something that she isn’t telling us.
I’m not calling her a thief…exactly, but when I charted the amount of money she’s donated to the communal coffee fund over the last year, versus the amount of coffee she’s consumed, well, let’s just say that I found her generosity to be wanting."
Excellent!
A shifty bartender in Mixing up a Miracle
“So you’re the guy, right?”
“I’m a guy, yes…”
“No man, that’s not what I’m talking about. You’re‘the guy,’ right? The one who makes the drinks?”
“That is what a bartender does…”
“Yea, you’re the guy alright. My buddy told me you were sort of a prick..."
Probably my favorite with a runner up being a startling letter near the end about a man and a ghost. 👻
I like ghosts.
There were only a few stories that were so-so, but the others surely made up for them. I think this collection has something for everyone.
4 and a half stars!
××Received copy in exchange for an honest review
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A Year of Stories Black Coral eBook Steve Spalding Reviews
A nice collection of stories. some better than others, and i believe the last one was missing. I look forward to the next one.
Light quick read, not really long enough to classify them as short stories, which is why I tagged these as vignettes. Some I connected with and found witty and engaging, others I found somewhat over the top quirky, others I found hard to follow. Overall a solid 3 stars. A light book to read on the plane or train. I received this book as an advanced reader copy from LibraryThing.com, in exchange for an honest review.
A Year of Stories – Collection 2 Black Coral by Steve Spalding is a project with the intriguing premise that a story will be written each day of the year. Specifically, each weekday, but there are sections entitled weekend writing. I reviewed the work Spalding published for January and paid attention to two things. Firstly, did he write every day? Yes, and has been mentioned, sometimes on the weekend. Secondly, were the stories interesting or was it just a vocabulary dump? For January, yes stories were interesting, some more so than others, but I was overall impressed.
With this second selection, February 2016, I was more impressed. Not with the idea that he kept to his schedule, but that I felt the stories were much better. They captured my interest and imagination so completely that I was a bit upset about the story that disappeared. The last story in the collection, “WHIZZ BANG LAB’S (MOSTLY) PARADOX FREE TIME MACHINE,” has no text other than the title. Below the title are the same words (where the story should be) that appear in the comments following the title in a section titled “Afterthoughts.” Oops.
But the work before that was good. If I were to ask the author one question it would be “Do you read a lot of Chuck Wendig?” I see a similarity in the twistedness of some of the tales. Not that there is any copying, plagiarizing or any of that stuff, it is just that with Spalding we have another weird author. The two are not weird in the same way, they are just twisted (or artists).
Spalding writes afterthoughts for each one of his stories. I think this is also pretty impressive. If you have already written a story per day, you have immersed yourself in the story. Another question. Were these afterthoughts written on a day other than when the story was written? Not a problem, it doesn’t violate the one story-per-day self-pledge. Maybe the afterthoughts were written as part of the editing process. But if that is true, I want to know where my missing story is.
This was fun to read and I look forward to the next collection in the series. Overall, I would call this fantasy. Then I can avoid deciding which stories are sci-fi, which are horror, or which are ghost stories. Almost all will surprise you. It is a fast read with a lot of talent displayed in different theme directions (not genre). I would have given it five stars if the collection had stories alone. The afterthoughts, which sometimes added to the fun but sometimes pontificated, led me to choose four stars. The missing story didn’t figure into my rating. I just pouted.
The first story was very odd to me. I needed to say that.
But then came a Breakroom Memo from the "that person" employee - a memo that anyone who has ever worked in an office community can relate to...
"I bought three Snickers bars from the Cash and Save last week, and placed them in the crisper for safe keeping...When I checked the following Monday, during my weekly audit of office supplies and sundries, there was only one Snickers bar...while I don’t want to start a witch hunt, and it’s not fair to point fingers without proof, I think Debra knows something that she isn’t telling us.
I’m not calling her a thief…exactly, but when I charted the amount of money she’s donated to the communal coffee fund over the last year, versus the amount of coffee she’s consumed, well, let’s just say that I found her generosity to be wanting."
Excellent!
A shifty bartender in Mixing up a Miracle
“So you’re the guy, right?”
“I’m a guy, yes…”
“No man, that’s not what I’m talking about. You’re‘the guy,’ right? The one who makes the drinks?”
“That is what a bartender does…”
“Yea, you’re the guy alright. My buddy told me you were sort of a prick..."
Probably my favorite with a runner up being a startling letter near the end about a man and a ghost. 👻
I like ghosts.
There were only a few stories that were so-so, but the others surely made up for them. I think this collection has something for everyone.
4 and a half stars!
××Received copy in exchange for an honest review
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