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Feature: Short Fiction Friday

Feature: Short Fiction Friday

It has been a while since I have started a new feature on the site. Some of the recurrent visitor may know that I run a biweekly (p)review forecast wherein I name a few books that I hope to read in the coming two weeks. I also run a Review Round-Up wherein I highlight a few books that I thoroughly enjoyed the last month. When I was biking home last night I was thinking of what I could still do to add new content to the blog and three letters went through my mind SFF which is normally related to Science Fiction Fantasy but what if those letter could be interpreted differently? So I came up with my own SFF, Short Fiction Friday! 

With the Short Fiction Friday I will review a short story every Friday, they can come from anthologies, magazines or from the internet. A lot of readers aren't that big of a fan of anthologies but I do enjoy reading short stories especially when authors are able to create the same feeling in 20-50 pages as they can with a full length book. 

Keep an eye out for later today as I will start of the SFF feature!

For this feature I also accept recommendations so if you have a short story you enjoyed let me know or if you have written one you can also submit it. Look under the about me page for more details or use the contact for on the right hand side.

Cheers,
Jasper






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