In which, along with a new intro discussion, we pull from our archives discussions of,
1. "Directions" by Judy Budnitz, Flying Leap (read online in strange horizons)
2. "Fisherman" by Nalo Hopkinson, Skin Folk (read online in strange horizons)
along with, among other things
That one story by Aimee Bender with a family in a house and weird stuff happens “Americca”; not to be confused with Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThat one story by Aimee Bender where the dad has a hole in his stomach “Marzipan.”The Particular Sadness of Lemon CakeIn the uncharted backwaters…That one setting for photography—HDR, which is actually not high-dynamic-resolution but, of course, HIGH-DYNAMIC-RANGE IMAGING.Silly words.The importance of CHORUSES, as explained by Chuck PahlianukEdgar Allen Poe and his SINGLE EFFECTFingersmith by Sarah Waters“The Fuzzy Genre Set” by Sessily Watt