Thursday, February 21, 2008

LRSF #29, Mrs. Zeno's Paradox, Ellen Klages

Opening: Anabel meets Midge for a treat. She enters a small cafe in the Mission District in San Francisco, bold graffiti-covered walls and baristas with multiple piercings and attitude.

Capsule: Or, Ellen Klages meets the Reader for a treat. That's exactly what this story is--as delicious as the brownie that is subjected to repeated Zenoesque division by the two protagonists. This story is really short but packs a beautiful punch. Interested in the limits of divisibility of spacetime? Are there any? Fem-lit perspective? Did one of the world's most famous physicists have any children we don't know about? All this and more in a few pages! Really enjoyed this sly, tightly crafted, entertaining tale.

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