She recalls shoes her brothers have worn: a pair of seven–league boots, tooled in soft leather winged sandals satin slippers that turned one invisible. Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El–Mohtar (4,5⭐) I'm not sure how they managed to write a story (or a flash piece? who cares really?) on violence on women that feels so emotionally graphic while being the opposite of how graphically these things are discussed in our world (you know. They get dissected, they get discussed, but they don’t get names or stories the audience remembers.īrooke Bolander is fucking brilliant! Really, like. Heroes get names killers get names victims get close–ups of their opened ribcages mid–autopsy, the bloodied stumps where their wings once attached, baffled coroners making baffled phone calls to even more baffled curators at local museums. Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies by Brooke Bolander (5��) Friendship and female empowerment will free them both from the unfair demands of men. The other sits at the top of a glass mountain, while uncouth suitors attempt to scale the summit. One woman is cursed to have to wear out seven pairs of magical iron shoes. We're introduced to two fairytale tropes. The message overtakes the story a bit, in this allegorical piece. *** Seasons of Glass and Iron - Amal El-Mohtar
**** Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies - Brooke Bolander Well, in this case, you should definitely not be a misogynist serial killer, because you really never know who you might be messing with. You know how the Bible says that you should be kind to strangers, because they just might be an angel taken human form? It's super-short (3 pages, maybe?) but is an empowering read.
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