My Deal Me In deck gave me a heart again, so I got to read another Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt story!
This one isn’t a Drabble (100-word story). So I got to spend a little more time with her words. Yay!
“The House of the Vord”
by Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt
This science fiction told me something I didn’t know about octopus biology. Disappointed in you, octopusses. Deeply, deeply disappointed. Try harder. Do better.
ANYWAY, this piece is told in first person in a serious, confessional style, which shows itself to be inevitable by the end. True science fiction, science- AND character-driven, in very few (though more than 100) words.
If you want to read more of Alicia’s work (and you do), do yourself a favor and buy the stand-alone first book of her in-progress, PRIDE’S CHILDREN trilogy, PRIDE’S CHILDREN: PURGATORY. You can thank me later.
If YOU need a short story to read, I have free ones here on my Free Reads page. I also have four collections for 99 cents each linked from my Short Stories page.
A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Write about procreation.
MA
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt
June 17, 2019 at 12:03pmThanks, Marian.
SF is hard – and I have read so much of it in my younger days. And then my kids have taken my books.
I lost heart when it became wildly speculative – I have a more practical imagination – and stopped reading much new stuff. When I finish the WIP, I’ll take up so much reading again, but I’m older now, and I can’t both write and read – same neurons.
Marian Allen
June 17, 2019 at 2:03pmWhen you get back to reading, I highly recommend the Three Body trilogy by Liu Cixin (or, if you’re American, Cixin Liu) https://scientificgems.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/the-three-body-problem-trilogy-a-book-review/ . More hard science than you can shake a slide rule at, and absolutely riveting. The only speculation in it is the physics, which is pretty speculative these days, but still….