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This thread is for comments on Husbandry by Eugene Fischer.
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maggiereader
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This thread is for comments on Husbandry by Eugene Fischer.
An intriguing premise, but the story doesn't seem fully developed. More like a very promising first draft. It reads more like a screenplay than short fiction.
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AthenaAndreadis
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It's also neither sf nor fantasy. More like a slice of life.
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Letty
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I thought this was absolutely lovely and interesting. It doesn't read like a first draft--it intentionally leaves us in an ambiguous place--putting the fish story and Marilyn's story together at the end makes us think she might have actually died, and he might not want to admit it or do anything. I loved the subtlety here.
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ElizabethTwist
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I agree with Letty - this was a terrific story that used horror tropes without making that the focus. Wonderful!
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Jed Hartman
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Regarding AthenaAndreadis's comment:
This story is definitely speculative fiction by my definition--for example, it takes place in a world that is not our world, and the way things work in the world of the story has a huge influence on what happens in the story. (See the paragraph that starts with "Next is a family with a nine-year-old boy and a dead parakeet" for hints about the worldbuilding.)
Or am I misunderstanding your comment?
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