Review of Vicki Wilson, “Jelly,” Flash Fiction Online 128 (May 2024): 22-24 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
When this story started off with measuring out sugar for making jam, my hope was that it would be a proper horror story.* Alas, this was a straight-up lit fic story — enjoyable enough in its own right, but definitely made more fun by imagining what it would look like with a speculative dress on.
(*I have wanted to try my hand at jam-making for years. But the processes are so complex and arcane that I’ve always been just a bit too scared to try.)
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