Imaginary Beasts: Book 12

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imaginarybeasts is "a bi-monthly webzine dedicated to original fiction of the oneshot variety". Anyone may participate, whether you would like to write, make visual art, volunteer to help with beta'ing, or, most importantly, read and review the stories. Etc, etc, here's the tag for previous reviews.

Each edition, or "book", has a theme; December's (I'm catching up!) was "Mythology". My favorites:

The Flight of the Keen by edincoat - An adorably fun, sweet story about school kids summoning a god. This story is just sparkly. It's fantastic.

The Catbird Seat by hazard_us. Oh my goodess! Tricksters! Being tricky! This story is devious and I love it.

Hopefall by nekokoban. A retelling of- well, that would be to give away the twist. But it's worth it, believe me. This is a really interesting take on a well-known myth.

Venom by scratchmist. A retelling of parts of Norse mythology from the perspective of Sigyn. This is dark, and bitter, but oh so good.

i sing of the battle of gods by e. This story mixes a ton of different pantheons, playing on parallels between gods and myths, and really makes it work. I also love the sarcastic voice the gods have in this.

You can read all of the stories and see the art here. The next book's theme is "Cities", and there is still a little while left to sign up for it here.