(Fairy Tale) As she paints them, the girl makes up stories about the wooden toys her father carves, unaware that she’s filling them with magic. (4,986 words; Time: 16m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
"The Toymaker's Daughter," by Arundhati Hazra (edited by C.C. Finlay), appeared in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction issue 03-04|17, published on March 1, 2017 by Spilogale Inc.
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Pro: This story is alternately funny and touching. The parents holding the magic lovebirds and saying, “Good Lord, it has speech-recognition and natural-language-processing software!” are hilarious.
Con: Too much of the story is told through cold narration rather than shown through action and dialogue, and this takes most of the life out of the story. Her father’s death ought to be an emotional event, but it’s not.
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Con: Too much of the story is told through cold narration rather than shown through action and dialogue, and this takes most of the life out of the story. Her father’s death ought to be an emotional event, but it’s not.
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Arundhati Hazra Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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The stories within the story are almost more enchanting the overall story itself.
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