June 2016

How is June over already? That makes not one bit of sense, and yet there it is. It’s already July 4th weekend.

I published a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope, which I’m really proud of, and managed to do some writing (and submitting) of my own. So that was good.

I also read thirty-four short stories, in June, saw six movies, and read just one book. Plus, like always, there was some music. Here’s the breakdown of all that:

The stories:

I read thirty-four short stories in June. I accidentally skipped a day, but I made it up and then some (well, a little some). My favorites included:

• “And Then, One Day, the Air was Full of Voices” by Margaret Ronald (Clarkesworld)
• “The Wardrobe of Metaphysical Maps” by Julia August (Grendelsong)
• “We Ride the Stillness” by Deborah Walker (Grendelsong)
• “The Drowning Line” by Haralambi Markov (Uncanny)
• “The First Confirmed Case of Non-Corporeal Recursion: Patient Anita R.” by Benjamin C. Kinney (Strange Horizons)
• “1957” by Stephen Cox (Apex)
• “The Bog Girl” by Karen Russell (The New Yorker)
• “Things With Beards” by Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld)
• “A Windowless Kitchen” by Trevor Shikaze (Liminal Stories)
• “.identity” by E. Catherine Tobler (Clarkesworld)
• “Innumerable Glimmering Lights” by Rich Larson (Clockwork Phoenix 5)
• “The Middle Child’s Practical Guide to Surviving a Fairy Tale” by Mari Ness (Fireside Fiction)

The books:

Though I’ve been poking in and out of some books lately, I only managed to actually finish reading one in. But it was a book I really, really loved: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. It’s just such a beautifully told story.

The movies:

• The Trouble With the Curve:
  

  The Trouble With the Curve is totally a movie that was made, with cameras and everything.

  — Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) June 5, 2016

• Hail, Caeser:
  

  With all the moviemaking in Hail Caesar!, I think maybe they forgot to make a movie.

  — Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) June 12, 2016

• Zootopia:
  

  Zootopia was very cute. Not at all surprising in terms of plot, but cleverer and sweeter than I'd expected.

  — Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) June 13, 2016

• Zoolander:
  

  Zoolander is agreeably silly but not exactly…funny.

  — Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) June 19, 2016

• Stake Land:
  

  I was not prepared for how lousy a movie Stake Land was going to be.

  — Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) June 26, 2016

• The House That Dripped Blood:
  

  The House That Dripped Blood was a little silly. pic.twitter.com/rRxPG8Xqfr

  — Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) June 26, 2016

The music:

Not much to say about this. I put together a playlist each month, of songs I especially liked listening to — usually if they’re new, or new to me — and this June’s:

And that was the month.