"The music, at least, did not make me feel like an outsider."

October 31, 2021 2:06 PM

Three short speculative stories about love, yearning, and relationships beyond the human boundary. "Cold Wind" by Nicola Griffith: "From the park on Puget Sound I watched the sun go down on the shortest day of the year." "Traveling Mercies" by Rachael K. Jones: "Sometimes you have to let people take care of you. That's the contract, the covenant of friendship." "First Dates" by Elizabeth Kestrel Rogers: "In retrospect, 'I’m dying' was a bad pick-up line."
posted by brainwane (5 comments total)

I'm a short life expectancy gal..."First Dates" got me crying. Darn.
posted by lextex at 2:31 PM on October 31, 2021 [3 favorites]

My most recent girlfriend and life partner also a short life expectancy lady, we got three years.
posted by Jacen at 4:50 PM on October 31, 2021

I have a friend with CF. That story hit very close to home.
posted by notoriety public at 6:11 PM on October 31, 2021

I keep meaning to comment on one of your posts, but as this one got to me -- thank you for all of your pointers to stories. I read almost all of them and have come to anticipate your next suggestions.
posted by cacophony at 9:39 AM on November 4, 2021 [1 favorite]

I had a feeling that some of these particular stories in this post would particularly speak to some MeFites.

cacophony: thanks for your kind words! Glad you're enjoying the series. If you're interested in making a first Front Page Post sometime, take a look at Giganotosaurus and Anathema? They are smaller scifi/fantasy magazines that often publish good work, and I haven't gone through their archives and don't know when/whether I will -- you could pick a story or two that speaks to you and post it.
posted by brainwane at 9:59 AM on November 4, 2021 [1 favorite]