rtimmorris's review
3.0
A collection of 27 stories: the finalists from the Owl Canyon Press Winter 2018 Hackathon Contest. My own story ("The Great Rise") was one of these, and I'm pretty proud of it.
I'll confess, I ended up skipping some of these; if they weren't grabbing me by the first couple of pages then I'd move on to the next one. More than a few actually felt remarkably like the same story!
Still, the stories that stood out to me (the ones I enjoyed the most), were:
"Random and Small Redemptions" by Rita Sommers-Flanagan (the 1st place winner)
"Galop" by Donald Ryan
"Paper Ocean, Paper Forest, Paper Sun" by Travis Dahlke
"Rejoice" by Daniel Earl
"The Therapy Session" by Lila Evans
"A Summer of Rare Tolerances" by Scott Adam Gordon
I'd say my favourite was probably the one by Travis Dahlke; he has such an incredible way of writing; so much peripheral detail that just makes the story come alive.
I'll confess, I ended up skipping some of these; if they weren't grabbing me by the first couple of pages then I'd move on to the next one. More than a few actually felt remarkably like the same story!
Still, the stories that stood out to me (the ones I enjoyed the most), were:
"Random and Small Redemptions" by Rita Sommers-Flanagan (the 1st place winner)
"Galop" by Donald Ryan
"Paper Ocean, Paper Forest, Paper Sun" by Travis Dahlke
"Rejoice" by Daniel Earl
"The Therapy Session" by Lila Evans
"A Summer of Rare Tolerances" by Scott Adam Gordon
I'd say my favourite was probably the one by Travis Dahlke; he has such an incredible way of writing; so much peripheral detail that just makes the story come alive.
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