Short Stories: Story of Your Life-Ted Chiang; A Cup of Salt Tears- Isabel Yap

This is a Short Story "Book" Club that focuses on sci fi/fantasy and horror short stories or novelettes. This month we
are reading "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang and "A Cup of Salt Tears" by Isabel Yap.

Links to the stories:
Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
https://fyp.uoregon.edu/sites/default/files/chiang_story_of_your_life.pdf

A Cup of Salt Tears by Isabel Yap
https://reactormag.com/a-cup-of-salt-tears-isabel-yap/

Ted Chiang Ted Chiang’s fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus awards, and has been featured in The Best American Short Stories. His debut collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, has been translated into twenty-one languages. He was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and currently lives near Seattle, Washington.

Isabel Yap writes fiction and poetry, works in the tech industry, and drinks tea. Born and raised in Manila, she has lived in the US since 2010. She holds a BS in Marketing from Santa Clara University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Her debut story collection, Never Have I Ever, was published in 2021 by Small Beer Press and won the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Her work has been a finalist for the Ignyte, Locus, Crawford, and World Fantasy Awards, and has appeared in venues including Lithub and Year’s Best Weird Fiction. Her website is https://isabelyap.com.