![]() ![]() I really felt that the story came full circle at the end and quite liked how Wiswell chose to wrap it up. This is a story that deserves to be read I highly recommend it. But this is a more insidious form of trauma, one that follows you around, can find you wherever you go, and has the ability to hurt those around you. Bird in the denouement is perhaps the best example of Wiswell's plotting - because recovering from emotionally traumatic abusive relationship rarely takes the form of a physical battle with one's abuser. The refrain from the title ("that story isn't the story I’m telling today") is used very effectively to explore the way our narratives can shape our trauma and how we deal with it. ![]() Bird gave him, and which well up with blood whenever Mr. Bird, and the entire story is about his recovery from the PTSD, with the emotional wounds that he suffers given material form as the physical wounds that Mr. The protagonist is an escaped familiar of a monstrous Mr. Wiswell is telling a deep story about the very human and real process of dealing with trauma, told through the lens of the fantastical. His work has appeared in Nature Futures, Fireside Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He won the 2021 Nebula for Best Short Story, and is a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy Award, and British Fantasy Award. This one is perfect - it's extremely tight, thematically speaking. John Wiswell is an ace/aro writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. Another of the Hugo 2022 novelette nominees. ![]()
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