(Modern Fantasy) Ten-year-old Polly wishes she could see fairies like her friend Isabelle can. She wishes a lot of things. Not all wishes should come true. (3,713 words; Time: 12m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
"Persephone of the Crows," by Karen Joy Fowler [bio] (edited by Sheila Williams), appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction issue 05-06|17, published on April 20, 2017 by Penny Publications.
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Pro: Polly’s character really comes to life, and we like her a lot. There’s lots of tension when her father is driving drunk. And it’s rather sad that she ends up a street person in San Francisco at just 13.
Con: There’s not much of a plot here. Polly isn’t really trying to accomplish anything at the start, and by the end she’s simply wandered off.
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Con: There’s not much of a plot here. Polly isn’t really trying to accomplish anything at the start, and by the end she’s simply wandered off.
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Karen Joy Fowler Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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Reprinted online at Lightspeed 124 (Sep 2020) with a podcast: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/persephone-of-the-crows/
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