The Seaboard Review of Books: A (Late) Monday Edition
April 13, 2026
In this issue:
Little Spoons by Deidre J. Halbot (Fiction)
Wonderland Road by Carrianne Leung (Fiction)
Fake Out: A Long Beach Mystery by Faye Bayko (Fiction)
Calamity Before Jane by Noah Van Sciver (Non-Fiction, Children)
We The Raptors: 30 Players 30 Stories 30 Years by Eric Smith & Andrew Bricker (Non-Fiction)
Calling It Back to Me by Laurie D. Graham (Poetry)
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Fiction
Little Spoons by Deidre J. Halbot
I look forward to being an older woman with a penchant for trinkets. I am currently a 32-year-old woman with a growing interest in trinkets, but I haven’t found my niche yet. My mother and my oma leaned on their Dutch heritage for inspiration: Delft pottery sprinkled their homes with scenic landscapes in blue and white. A range of visuals from florals t…
Wonderland Road by Carrianne Leung
For decades, if not centuries, novels and other works depicting a post-apocalyptic world have formed a popular sub-genre of science fiction. Many of these works focus on the collapse of civilization and posit how such a calamity could come about. In the 21st-century we’ve seen a stream of works emerge that skip the actual mechanism of collapse and—inspi…
Fake Out: A Long Beach Mystery by Faye Bayko
The idealized world of hippies, free love, and the notion of escape draws university student Sandy Chambers to Vancouver Island in 1968, specifically the area of Long Beach and Wickaninnish Inn around Tofino. While she gets all of that, she also experiences something she didn’t expect: finding a dead body.
Non-Fiction
Calamity Before Jane by Noah Van Sciver
As the protagonist of the 1953 movie Calamity Jane, wholesome Doris Day prettily crooned the chart-topper “Secret Love.” Now, fast forward a half-century to Robin Weigert as Jane in the TV series Deadwood. What this plainer Jane gave vent to was profanity and insults.
We The Raptors: 30 Players 30 Stories 30 Years by Eric Smith & Andrew Bricker
Was it an entertaining read? Yes
Poetry
Calling It Back to Me by Laurie D. Graham
Where does family — those long threads of lineage that tie us to something more than our individual selves — reside?
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