foomple's review
4.0
I've only recently come into contact with Fireside Magazine, and I'm definitely interested now in checking out more of their stuff. I happened across Sloane Leong's Mouth & Marsh, Silver & Song by chance, read it and enjoyed it. I liked the gender bits and the way its poetic language was also off-putting; it got my attention, but then I was doing other things and forgot about it. Since then it kept being called back to mind, but (and this is a problem I often have with short stories, and it drives me up the wall) I could not for the life of me recall where I had read this lovely/horrible monster tale. I just found it again and am capturing it with a review so that I won't lose track of it again.
Seeing as it was in the same issue, I also read Alisa Alering's That Time I Found a Phone Booth Where I Can Talk to My (Dead) Dad in order to review it, and I'm happy to say I really enjoyed that one too. Both have a haunting feel, like their ingredients included poetry and hallucinations, and I like that. I plan to read more Fireside.
Seeing as it was in the same issue, I also read Alisa Alering's That Time I Found a Phone Booth Where I Can Talk to My (Dead) Dad in order to review it, and I'm happy to say I really enjoyed that one too. Both have a haunting feel, like their ingredients included poetry and hallucinations, and I like that. I plan to read more Fireside.
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