Status Updates From Convergence Problems

A Dream of Electric Mothers, is a beautiful tale of grief, and the raising of a child to be better than yourself. In the thought space of the recorded memories three mothers spoke to the speaker, each offering a gentle kindness, but also a fragment of the answer. It is comforting to think of our ancestors still teaching us through ways long passed.

I’ll call this one Comments. Grief isn’t something I’ve experienced quite yet, so I don’t know how I’d feel. But I know it can drive people to do great and terrible things, entwined with one another.

The Million Eyes of a Lonely and Fragile god, is quite short, but hits me deeply. The speakers act of trying his hardest to love Tinuke reminds me of my failed relationship, how u thought I had to lover her, that she was all I could ever have.

Embers is about a deep evil and madness, a resistance to change and the danger of pride. It is a deep tragedy that could only be stopped by the speaker Uduak. It’s a chilling horror story of a red vile evil.

Silence, I didn’t have much to say about this. I was excited for another second person story but it was so empty for me.

Performance review is a kind of horror that grips you in way that’s too familiar. The alien nature of the office, the drastic change in managerial people when it’s time to judge you. Only to realize later that even those above you are subjected to the same treatment that they subject you to. A chilling reflection of what work now resembles.

Nigerian Dream is a short tale of exploitation and abandonment of humanity. Like the American dream, it plays against it the idea is a solid banner that all people of an area aspire to be like, but in reality, it colors the actions of people to be outwardly antagonistic to those who don't share thier worldview.

Everything Tends to 0, has a great display of an immense power, that wants not to harm, but must in its defence. The idea that the speaker is talking to Lagos and that the city feels pity for the fate it has given them. It is tragic, but in a way that feels it could be fought. A full submission to death, to the ends of all things, is something I have felt a want for, but I have always fought.

A dream of electric mothers. -3 stars - decent story that made you think a little.

Performance review - 2 stars - too little only the germ of the idea
Silence - 1 star - didn’t work for me
Embers - 2 stars - poor ending
The million eyes - 2 stars - these stories are too short! Unsurprised to see that it was inspired by gravity the movie.
Comments on patent - 1 star - I cannot be engaged by word document comments, appreciate the attempt to be originals

About a52 - 2 stars - little of substance interesting thought about using comments but not used well
Tends to zero - 2 stars - meh
Nigerian dream - 2 stars - bleak and not much

Hanger - 3 stars - first real story in the book, solid tale wound into folk story.

Abeokuta52 is another short story that brought tears to my eyes. The pain expressed in the article felt to real, to genuine atrocities in our world.
Also an excellent use of the online forum format, I had to cross check replies and comments like a genuine thread.

Ganger, is the longest story so far, but carries with it a realization that science fiction, is no stranger to the way we’ve always told stories. To pair the events that happen, to a similar story of bodily change and purpose from a folk tale, really puts in perspective, how similar all stories are. It is perfect, and simple. A story about storytelling.

Gamma - dark - 3 stars

Saturdays song - 4 stars - original fantasy
Lights in the sky - 3 stars - punchy cyberpunk
Blowout- 2 stars - bit of a nothingburger

It was short and sweet. Gamma. It spoke to my bygone male perspective. It made me feel like Talabi can encompass the whole of experience.

Blowout is a solid story, but not much else to me. It’s always beautiful how Talabi mixes past and present, a trait I greatly admire. Even in its short breath Blowout is full and complete, and making me want more.

Lights in the Sky, even with its short stature punches up and domestic let go. Every moment you spend learning of the situation told to you it hurts, inter-spliced with memories that should bring respite, but only harm you more. I cried, and I know I would not be alone.