Project Unicorn, Volume 2

30 stories in just about 300 pages makes for incredible short short stories. Most of them had interesting concepts, but the story had not much room to do anything with them. I would love to read some of those being expanded upon. Namely Violina which is about a robot girl whose body is also a violin, Mary A through Z about 26 identical girls raised in a lab in order to see the effects of nature vs nurture, True if by Sea a transgender little mermaid retelling (sort of, at the very least its obviously inspired by it) and also Don't Eat the Bluebird which introduces a different take on werewolves.

On the other hand there were several stories that I thought stood well on its own. My favorite is definitely Speak of the Devil, a story told in verse. I can't judge it as a poem but I loved how my whole perception of what's going on completely changed every few lines. The runner ups are Flower Constancy, a historical fiction with a dash of magic about butterflies and loss and Solitary Birds another story with themes of loss and loneliness, and The Gray Road which, now that I think about it has also the same themes with more overt homophobia added in.

In fact a lot of the stories dealt with the loss of a loved one, isolation, or homophobia. Though it always ends on a happy, or at least hopeful note. I didn't mind that at all, but it might be surprising to those who pick this up expecting happy fluffy lesbian stories. So, overall this was a mix of several really good stories, and a lot of stories that fell -literally- too short. None of them were flat out bad though, so I will be picking up the first volume sometime which I for some reason skipped over.