★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention
(Modern Epic Fantasy) At 19, the narrator fled a failed romance and made a friend who claimed to be chasing the same girl for 400 years. (10,862 words; Time: 36m)
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"How I Came to Write Fantasy," by Michael Libling [bio] (edited by C.C. Finlay), appeared in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction issue 11-12|19, published on November 5, 2019 by Spilogale Inc.
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Review: 2019.644 (A Word for Authors)
Pro: It’s a very emotional story, whether from the sad fate of Jacob’s mother to the narrator’s loss of his own mother. It also has plenty of comic relief, like the narrator’s “gift” of drawing people into telling him their life stories.
The breaking of the curse is unexpected, and so is the aftermath.
Con: It goes on a bit long, and it’s rather unsatisfying that the other characters die off stage. It ends without a sense of closure.
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Pro: It’s a very emotional story, whether from the sad fate of Jacob’s mother to the narrator’s loss of his own mother. It also has plenty of comic relief, like the narrator’s “gift” of drawing people into telling him their life stories.
The breaking of the curse is unexpected, and so is the aftermath.
Con: It goes on a bit long, and it’s rather unsatisfying that the other characters die off stage. It ends without a sense of closure.
Other Reviews: Search Web
Michael Libling Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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