★★★☆☆ Average
(Alien Abduction) The aliens abducted Lucky’s bar and everyone in it. They’ve been trapped in some twisted part of space-time, and the narrator despairs of ever getting home. (924 words; Time: 03m)
"The Fate of the World, Reduced to a Ten-Second Pissing Contest," by Erica L. Satifka [bio] (edited by Andy Cox), appeared in Interzone issue 275, published on May 15, 2018 by TTA Press.
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Pro: The setting is interesting, a group of people trapped in a bar in a place between one moment and the next. It has a very strong Twilight Zone feeling to it.
Con: As far as I can tell, the narrator and his girlfriend simply commit suicide at the end. He seemed to think there was something significant about the alien pissing off the edge, but I can’t see what it was.
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Con: As far as I can tell, the narrator and his girlfriend simply commit suicide at the end. He seemed to think there was something significant about the alien pissing off the edge, but I can’t see what it was.
Other Reviews: Search Web, Browse Review Sites (Issue 275)
Erica L. Satifka Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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