★★★☆☆ Average
(Climate SF) Frankie hopes her boyfriend in LA will be her ticket out of the ruined landscape around the Salton Sea, but he hasn’t been returning her texts since she told him she was pregnant. (4,775 words; Time: 15m)
"Orphan Bird," by Leah Newsom [bio] (edited by Angie Dell and Joey Eschrich), appeared in Everything Change Volume II (RSR review), published on January 25, 2019 by Arizona State University.
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Review: 2019.258 (A Word for Authors)
Pro: The Salton Sea isn’t quite this bad yet, but it’s probably no more than ten years away from what’s described here. It's an unsung ecological disaster that looks inevitable at this point.
Con: This story is barely SF at all.
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Pro: The Salton Sea isn’t quite this bad yet, but it’s probably no more than ten years away from what’s described here. It's an unsung ecological disaster that looks inevitable at this point.
Con: This story is barely SF at all.
Other Reviews: Search Web, GoodReads.com
Leah Newsom Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
Follow RSR on Twitter, Facebook, RSS, or E-mail.
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