#e. l. chen

[bones-clouds]

books i read in 2026:

"slasher summer"

e. l. chen

"the tropes weren’t so funny when they happened in real life."

[blogthefiresidechats]

Another order online....

The first one, I ordered it a while back and it came in already. The others on this list, I just ordered them yesterday and hopefully they’ll be here some time this next week. Now, some of these books are part of a series that I have at home while others are a standalone novel. I can’t wait till they show up.

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[hedgehogreads]

Natasha felt sadistic satisfaction - then checked herself. Yes, smugness was acceptable. There were no female stereotypes that were based on smugness.

 - E. L. Chen, “The Story of the Woman and Her Dog”, from Tesseracts Twelve

[hedgehogreads]

Don’t you trust me, he asked.

I felt that, if he had to ask, I probably didn’t.

 - E. L. Chen, “The Story of the Woman and Her Dog”, from Tesseracts Twelve

[hedgehogreads]

“It’s a long story. I'd rather not talk about it.”

“Stories are meant to be told. That’s why they are stories. How else are we to learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others?”

 - E. L. Chen, “The Story of the Woman and Her Dog”, from Tesseracts Twelve

[hedgehogreads]

Only the goldfish bowl still stood on the dresser, but they would never reveal what atrocities they had witnessed, and they would never judge. Goldfish are like that - as neutral as Switzerland.

 - E. L. Chen, “The Story of the Woman and Her Dog”, from Tesseracts Twelve

[hedgehogreads]

Come on, talk to me, he said. Don’t give me the silent treatment. That’s your reaction to everything. Be reasonable.

I thought I was being perfectly reasonable. I checked myself again. Hysterical, whiny, petty, jealous? Angry, vengeful, bitchy, shrewish? Weepy, desperate, clingy, needy? No, none of those; I had smothered them. But what was left to feel?

 - E. L. Chen, “The Story of the Woman and Her Dog”, from Tesseracts Twelve