Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

  • Top 6 Mythology Retellings

    Today, my second professional short story publication is up on Strange Horizons: “The Siren,” available for free to read or listen to. “The Siren” is about a young woman struggling to cope with the loss of her father and forced to confront that loss, as well as her budding sexuality, when her mother brings home…

  • Collection Review: Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove

    In Karen Russell’s second short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, it’s evident that Russell’s fiction has grown and evolved with her career. Many of the stories in her first collection, St. Lucy’s School for Girls Raised By Wolves, while imaginative, concerned adolescence and coming of age. The protagonists were younger, and the stories…

  • Advance Review: Clockwork Phoenix 4

    Highlights: “Beach Bum and the Drowned Girl” by Richard Parks “Icicle” by Yukimi Ogawa “Lesser Creek: A Love Story, A Ghost Story” by A.C. Wise “The Wanderer King” by Alisa Alering “Lilo Is” by Corinne Duyvis “Selected Program Notes From the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer” by Kenneth Schneyer “The Bees Her Heart, the…

  • Magazine Spotlight: Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet

    Highlights -“Killing Curses, a Caught-Heart Quest” by Krista Hoeppner Leahy -“Vanish Girl” by Andrea M. Pawley -“Neighbors” by Kamila Z. Miller             Well, I’ll say one thing for ankle surgery; it makes it easy to get reading done, what with all the lying around, keeping my foot elevated. After my recent car wreck – happy…

  • Top Ten Innovative Alien Stories

    At the beginning of this month, my first professional publication was published in Clarkesworld 77: a short story titled “The Wanderers.” (It’s available to read or listen to free through the Clarkesworld website.) The story is about a group of sadistic aliens who come to Earth after viewing some of our movies and news broadcasts.…