★★★☆☆ Average
(Portal Fantasy) The narrator is sure portals to other worlds exist, and he wants to find one—if not for himself, then for his nine-year-old son (3,215 words; Time: 10m)
"Our Side of the Door," by Kodiak Julian [bio] (edited by John Joseph Adams), appeared in Lightspeed Magazine issue 96, published on May 1, 2018.
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Pro: The narrator does find a portal and he believes he sent his son through it, even though, by the rules of portals, he’ll never know what happened there.
Con: One can just as easily read this story as the delusions of the narrator and that there was no portal and nothing supernatural at all.
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Con: One can just as easily read this story as the delusions of the narrator and that there was no portal and nothing supernatural at all.
Other Reviews: Search Web, Browse Review Sites (Issue 96)
Kodiak Julian Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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