Two More Weathering Youth Stories (with long titles)
Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection!
“The Dark Forest Takes” (which was also published as “The Divergence in the Woods”) and “A Weird Twist of Geography” both deal with geographical anomalies, but with different approaches.
“The Dark Forest Takes” is a flash fiction piece in which two sisters go looking for their missing father in the forest where he was last seen. It melds technology with spooky vibes, and the ending doesn’t quite answer any questions that the piece presents (it’s intentionally left vague).
“A Weird Twist of Geography” blends some creepy vibes with a bit of humor, as one character has flashbacks to a near drowning as a child, due to a change in a river’s course that brings her back to the location that lingers in her memory. But it’s set at a sci-fi convention, and things get weird as all the pieces come together.
“The Dark Forest Takes” originally appeared in Wyldblood, and it was later reprinted as “The Divergence in the Woods” in Trees. “A Weird Twist of Geography” is only available in Weathering Youth. You can read them, along with other stories featuring young protagonists in a variety of settings, in print and ebook formats!
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