Only listened to:

~ For All Those Who Sheltered Here by Del Sandeen, read by Matt Peters - 2*
A tree was our MC. It could only comment on its visitors, so we get to meet them through its "eyes" over the years.

~ White Rose, Red Rose by Rachel Swirsky, read by Erika Ensign - 3*
Interesting. We enter the story far after the situation the MC is living in started, so it's a bit confusing. The author shows us enough to infer what is going on. So, I understand what is going on but without the how's and why's, it's a bit hard to get move past the questions because things are pretty out of the ordinary. haha. The language of the items left on the windowsill by the resistance was the most interesting to me.

This magazine had some stories that I liked better than others, but in general I thought this was a good collection. I picked it up when I did because John Wiswell's "That Story Isn't The Story" was nominated for awards and I wanted to read it for myself. I enjoyed it, but there were parts of it (involving blood) that I didn't like much at ALL. It was not my favorite story in the magazine... I think my favorite was the humorous “The North Pole Workshops” by Mari Ness.

Other favorites were Rachel Swirsky's "White Rose, Red Rose" and Mary Robinette Kowal's “Ina’s Spark.” I also enjoyed “The Stop After the Last Station” by A. T. Greenblatt, but that one was a bit more confusing to me due to the order in which the story was told. ( )