Archive for September, 2010
Matthew Hughes. Timmy, Come Home. (Is Anybody Out There?)
Brodie is disturbed about the voices in his head, and we follow, with wry humour, his progression through the hands of a variety of specialists.
Dale Bailey. Silence. (F&SF May/June 2010)
A victim of bullying finds something in the woods – something weak and needy, and very much out of place.
Pat Cadigan. The Taste of Night. (Is Anybody Out There?)
A young woman living on the streets is struggling with an sensory overload – is it synesthesia, or a sixth sense?
Rosanne Rabinowitz. Harmony in my Head. (Conflicts).
A story with a very definite sense of time and place.
Hilary Goldstein. Seven Sins for Seven Dwarves. (F&SF May/June 2010)
Retelling of the Snow White story, with the dwarves altogether darker than the Disney versions.
Alex Irvine. Remotest Mansions of the Blood. (F&SF May/June 2010).
The difference between what is real, and what is dream, and who is doing the dreaming, and what it all means, becomes very, very blurred.
Stephen Gaskell. Aquestria. (Interzone #226, Jan/Feb 2010)
A big central conceit sprung on the reader right at the end.
Ray Vukcevich. One Big Monkey. (Is Anybody Out There?)
Clever, quirky short from Vukcevich, with humanity turning inwards, self-obsessed, blurring identities.
Aaron Schulz. Dr. Death vs the Vampire. (F&SF May/June 2010)
A passenger with special abilities on a long-distance bus journey ponders how to use the special powers invested in him.
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