It was initially available on Twitter in a series of tweets over a ten day period. Jennifer Egan's Black Box is a Bond Girl meets RoboCop science fiction short story. When crap hits the fan, possibly the one located in your left bicep, you'll be happy to know you're not getting paid for this service. You are not getting paid for this service. It may lead you into further shenanigans that get you killed. This flash might briefly blind you or get you killed. Your country may be an idiot and decide the camera in your eye would be awesome if it had a flash. Your country may ask you to accessorize that service with some pretty heavy subcutaneous tech. In the near future, you might be called up to serve your country based solely on your looks & willingness to deploy these looks in service to said country. but the story is good - go read it please. i still have a fever, despite all these antibiotics, so my brain might be all curdled. i don't know why i loved this as much as i did - the brevity of the segments is a little distracting and it can be repetitive, but there's something wonderful about it despite the gimmicks - a story keeps pushing its way through all the obstacles to its storydom, breathing life into the cold second-person voice and the stripped-down snippets - a soft, warm, viable story with a snuffling nose and a lovely beating heart that wants to be more than just a robot delivering terse sentences. Keep with you the things that matter - you won't come back for them later.Ī story written in second-person and originally published as a series of many many tweets posted over a ten-day period about a female spy with some advanced bio-gadgetry on a mission to.

Remind yourself that you are receiving no payment, in currency or kind, for this or any act you have engaged in.Īn abundance of diaphanous bathrobes suggests that the occupants of this bathroom are often female.Ī soiled and tattered white sundress can seem oddly precious when it's all you have. When you emerge from a warm, churning bath where you've spent an indeterminate period of time, expect to feel shaky and weak. Which in turn links to the whole monthlong project, in case you wanna do some free short story reading of your own! links to the stories in this year's advent-ure will be at the end of each review.Įnjoy, and the happiest of decembers to you all! Here is a link to the first story in last year's project, however, i will be posting story links in case anyone wants to read the stories themselves and show off how maybe someone could have time for that. Last year, i carved out my own short story advent calendar as my project for december, and it was so much fun i decided to do it again this year! so, each day during the month of december, i will be reading a short story and doing the barest minimum of a review because ain't no one got time for that and i'm already so far behind in all the things.

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