★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
(Horror) A family flees in the middle of the night because their house has started to breathe. They don’t know it’s going to miss them—especially when the birds show up and there’s no one to shoo them away. (5,073 words; Time: 16m)
"Who Has Never Loved a Gentle House?," by Osahon Ize-Iyamu [bio] (edited by Vanessa Rose Phin), appeared in Strange Horizons issue 05/13/19, published on May 13, 2019.
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Review: 2019.320 (A Word for Authors)
Pro: This is essentially the story of how a sentient house, abandoned by its owners, refuses to accept that its fate is to slowly decay. It wants to travel, and it determines to do so despite the flocks of birding telling it it can’t.
Con: It’s more like a children’s story than anything else, up until it gets bloodthirsty. I imagine it’s supposed to mean something, but I can’t imagine what. The famine center and the hazmat suits are hard to fit with the rest of the narrative, among other things. Either way, it’s not much fun to read something this long without having a clue what it’s trying to say.
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Pro: This is essentially the story of how a sentient house, abandoned by its owners, refuses to accept that its fate is to slowly decay. It wants to travel, and it determines to do so despite the flocks of birding telling it it can’t.
Con: It’s more like a children’s story than anything else, up until it gets bloodthirsty. I imagine it’s supposed to mean something, but I can’t imagine what. The famine center and the hazmat suits are hard to fit with the rest of the narrative, among other things. Either way, it’s not much fun to read something this long without having a clue what it’s trying to say.
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Osahon Ize-Iyamu Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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