This, silly brain! Do this!
There’s a lot of ways that I can enjoy a story, and a lot of different levels. But especially when I’m doing a lot of writing, I tend to look at things through that particular lens. And every once in a while I come across a story that hits me in just the right spot. And today, I think I first really became aware of what that spot is. It’s me saying “this is what I want to do”. It’s a weird beautiful bittersweet feeling. I get this feeling off Nabokov and Gabriel García Márquez, Carla Speed McNeil’s Finder and The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock, and Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness. And today, as I was reading The Year’s Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection, I got it off this story, which is apparently free online for a limited time. I’ve been reading a lot of SF lately, mostly to get a feel for different markets. I’ve probably read two dozen different SF, fantasy, and horror stories in the past couple of weeks. This was the first one to get me that way.
So, um, go read it. I think you’ll like it too.
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