This week’s story for the Torque Control Short Story Reading Club is Oh He Is by Karen Heuler, published in Fantasy Magazine.
It’s a take on The Pied Piper, returning after leaving the kids in a coma state. There’s some quite nice description in the story but the plot just didn’t grab me. I was just left thinking “And?” and unfortunately the language was fine but not enough to keep me interested.
Stories like this need to grab me emotionally, or do something off-beat, or have language that I want to read again and again, or have some wonderful ideas.
Not one for me.
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