Two Fic Tuesday for April 14th

Hi, hello and welcome!

This week I have a pair of stories from returning authors! Jennifer Hudak and Catherine Tavares are two people whose work I really admire, as well as finding them to be delightful humans as well. They both create wonderful, evocative work that can be word, and fascinating, and sometimes even unsettling, but in such beautiful ways.

Recs

The Tide Folk - Jennifer Hudak - LIghtspeed
I love Jennifer's work. Her stories are like catnip for me and this one was no exception. I grew up by beaches, and even though they were different than these, I still felt so close to this story, anyway. It's beautiful, and brief, and feels so much like the things it's trying to convey.

[Let Me Out by QueSarahSarah1986](https://gavagai.com/u/cjtavares](https://gavagai.com/posts/3428) - Catherine Tavares - Gavagai
Oh no, I loved everything about this. Catherine does some great work with format in her fiction and this one is very much on theme for that! I love seeing the way she played with structure to tell this story so, so much. It's creepy, and fun, and just a delight.

I wish all of you many good stories,

• Vale

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