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The Twelve Days of Christmas by Colin Nissan

The Twelve Days of Christmas

2024 McSweeney’s Advent Calendar #24

Colin Nissan

20 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction short stories
Ayn Rand Writes Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Jennie Egerdie

Ayn Rand Writes Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

2024 McSweeney’s Advent Calendar #6

Jennie Egerdie

18 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction short stories
I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled by Melinda Taub

I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled

2024 McSweeney’s Advent Calendar #21

Melinda Taub

11 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction short stories
Surely People Will Remember Me, Ebenezer Scrooge, as the Christmas-Loving Man I Became by Jordan Call

Surely People Will Remember Me, Ebenezer Scrooge, as the Christmas-Loving Man I Became

2024 McSweeney’s Advent Calendar #17

Jordan Call

23 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction short stories
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

303 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective slow-paced
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

The Salt Grows Heavy

Cassandra Khaw

2 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction fantasy horror lgbtqia+ dark mysterious fast-paced
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan by John Bul Dau

Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan

John Bul Dau

166 pages • first pub 2010 (editions) user-added

5.0gossamer_lens's review
nonfiction biography history emotional medium-paced
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness

Hainish Cycle

Ursula K. Le Guin

364 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction classics lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
Chivalry by Christina Pickles, Neil Gaiman

Chivalry

Christina Pickles, Neil Gaiman

72 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction graphic novel short stories adventurous emotional medium-paced
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Beyond the Gender Binary

Pocket Change Collective

Alok Vaid-Menon

1 hour, 8 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0gossamer_lens's review
nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ young adult informative inspiring reflective fast-paced