REVIEW: “Wind Whisperers” by Anna O’Brien

Review of Anna O’Brien, “Wind Whisperers,” Luna Station Quarterly 61 (2025): 233-247 — Purchase online. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.

Noma’s job is to whisper to the wind, the trick it into no longer agitating the skyscrapers and their inhabitants. Her job is not to mentor new wind whisperers, but Bryce, her newly assigned mentee, isn’t going to let that stop him.

Noma may find Bryce intensely irritating, but his earnestness is just sincere enough that I found him highly entertaining. This story made me laugh many times, and made me glad to have read it when I reached the end.

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REVIEW: “Mory Takes Flight” by Anna O’Brien

Review of Anna O’Brien, “Mory Takes Flight”, Luna Station Quarterly 27 (2016): Read online. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.

I struggled a bit with the balance between background information and actual story in this one; it sometimes felt like there was more of the former and less of the latter. But I enjoyed the chatty oriole from England who was just passing through Cyrpus when he met up with the titular Mory; he was amusing and jolly to read.

(First published in Unlocked: Short Stories from the Frederick Writers’ Salon, 2015).

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