https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25150011-slave-stories
Have you seen the list of authors on this one? No really, look again. I am surprised that more people haven’t read this yet. I thoroughly enjoyed the way each author added to the ethos of the slave state. Much of this is pretty dark, but there are also some humorous and slightly whimsical ones as well. This anthology is a strong and varied. It has perked my interest in finishing all of Chris Kelso’s slave state books, and possibly rereading the two I have already read. Standouts below:
Blackout In Upper Moosejaw by Laura Lee Bahr
Aphanisis by John Langan
Shatter Demalion by Simon Marshall-Jones
Aftermath by Gary J. Shipley
Municipal Election 3B by Mick Clocherty
To Imagine Disaster is to Invoke the Same by Violet Levoit
The Act of Dying by Shane Swank
Gold, Myrrh and Frankenstein by Rhys Hughes
Dive Bar Prophecies by Ian Welke
Ruins (Poems) by Seb Doubinsky
From Within by Richard Thomas
Overall very few misses, many hits. Recommended. 4 stars
Rodney Gardner 
Ooh, that looks good!