Short Stories Book Club: Sandstone Ballad/You'll Understand When You're a Mom...

This is a Short Story "Book" Club that focuses on sci fi/fantasy and horror short stories or novelettes. This month we
are reading "Sandstone Ballad" by Danielle Shandiin Emerson and "You'll Understand When You're a Mom Someday" by Isabel J. Kim.

Links to Stories:
Story 1: “Sandstone Ballad” appearing in Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
by Danielle Shandiin Emerson
Link to read the story free online: https://www.unchartedmag.com/stories/sandstone-ballad/
Story 2: “You’ll Understand When You’re a Mom Someday”
by Isabel J. Kim
Link to read/listen to the story free online: https://www.khoreomag.com/fiction/youll-understand-when-youre-a-mom-someday/

About the Authors:
Danielle Shandiin Emerson is a Diné writer from Shiprock, New Mexico on the Navajo Nation. Her clans are Tłaashchi’i (Red Cheek People Clan), born for Ta’neezaahníí (Tangled People Clan). Her maternal grandfather is Ashííhí (Salt People Clan) and her paternal grandfather is Táchii’nii (Red Running into the Water People Clan). She has a B.A. in Education Studies and a B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University. Her writing centers healing, kinship, language-learning, and Diné narratives.
From the author:
“Yá’át’ééh shí éí Danielle Shandiin Emerson yinishyé. Tłááshchi’i nishłí. Ta’neezaahnii éí bashichiin. Adóó Ashii’hii éí dashicheii. Ta’chiinii éí dashinali. Nataanii Nez éí shighandi. Kot’eego éí Diné asdzáán nishłi.
I'm a Diné woman from Shiprock, NM, based in Nashville, TN. I'm passionate about reading diverse fiction and YA/children’s literature, uplifting cultural storytelling, language revitalization through creative writing, and aiding in the equitable access of literary resources. I’m an MFA Fiction candidate at Vanderbilt University.”
Isabel J. Kim is a speculative fiction author who lives near New York City in an apartment filled with books and swords. She is the USA Today bestselling author of Sublimation. Her short fiction has won the Nebula, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award, is a finalist for the Hugo and Sturgeon Award, and she has previously been a finalist for the Astounding Award. She has been published in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other venues, and has been reprinted in multiple best of the year anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy ‘23, ‘24, and ‘25, and her work has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. Her work has been optioned for film and TV. She is a two-time graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and is delighted that she uses the creative writing degree more than the law degree. When she’s not writing, she’s either co-hosting her internet culture podcast, Wow if True, or contemplating returning to her biglaw career.