Words for Thought — Short Fiction Review
Join Words for Thought reviewer A.C. Wise each month as she examines works that speak to each other through theme or tone.
Assumptions, perceptions, and characters who are more than they seem beneath the surface of their skin
Isolation, people cut off from society and humanity
Families by choice, and families by blood – losing them, finding them, and trying to understand them
New worlds, new modes of existence, and shifting to new ways of thinking after encountering the unknown
The cycle of death and rebirth, new life emerging from the blanket of winter
Tension between the self and the other, suspicion, distrust, but also healing and hope
Humanity and nature
Power and resistance
Self and the struggle within
Places we call home
Life beyond death
Water, transformation, and family
Death, loss, and memory
Destiny and disguises
Flying, falling, jumping, and staying aloft, as well as the uses and abuses of bodies, consumption, what remains hidden, and what people choose not to see.
