Review of Rebecca Burton, "There is a Cottage by the Woods," Luna Station Quarterly 51 (2022): Read online. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
This story started off with a long enough pre-amble in italics that I actually quit reading and scrolled down because I wondered if the formatting in the story had gone wrong and an <i> tag hadn't gotten closed. But, nope: There's just a really long info-dump pre-amble in italics at the very beginning.
What came after that info-dump was a lovely pleasant read, though; it makes me wish an editor had suggested just getting rid of it altogether and starting the story at the point where it really started.
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