★★★☆☆ Average
(Apocalypse) All over the world, people are dying and their souls are escaping in the form of black butterflies, but the narrator and her family continue to hold on. (3,872 words; Time: 12m)
"Everything Rising, Everything Starting Again," by Sarah Brooks [bio] (edited by Andy Cox), appeared in Interzone issue 280, published on March 1, 2019 by TTA Press.
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Pro: I don’t think I’ve ever read a butterfly apocalypse story before.
Con: I can’t help thinking that there’s some symbolism here that I’m just not seeing. Otherwise, there isn’t very much to this story, and the people in it aren’t acting very much like they would in a real epidemic.
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Pro: I don’t think I’ve ever read a butterfly apocalypse story before.
Con: I can’t help thinking that there’s some symbolism here that I’m just not seeing. Otherwise, there isn’t very much to this story, and the people in it aren’t acting very much like they would in a real epidemic.
Other Reviews: Search Web
Sarah Brooks Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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