(Paranormal) Fifteen-year-old Kayla can predict the future, but she wants to avoid the bad things that have happened to her other gifted relatives. (4,700 words; Time: 15m)
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
"The Four Gardens of Fate," by Betsy Phillips [bio], appeared in Apex Magazine issue 81, published on February 1, 2016.
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Pro: The details about how the gift works are fascinating, including seeing the future as a distribution of probabilities. The idea that you inherit the gift from your actual family not your biological one was amusing.
Con: There isn't a real story here. Kayla isn't really trying to do much of anything; things just happen.
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Con: There isn't a real story here. Kayla isn't really trying to do much of anything; things just happen.
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I think it was clever to put the second half of a story about premonitions in future tense. However, it was still distancing and odd to read.
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