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The Need to Stay the Same - Fake book review

What Joseph Felt - The Christmas story from Joseph's point of view

Tradition - Yawn. Heard the joke before. Telling it in a sci-fi setting does not make it worth hearing again.

What Would Sam Spade Do? - Sci Fi Noir staring a clone of Jesus.... Weird.

Parable Lost - Yep. It's definitely nowhere to be found.

What a Piece of Work - Yeah. This one doesn't work either. And once gain, it's a sci-fi premise that falls flat on its face.

Out of It - Very close to being a real story, but IMO it barely misses the mark. It's like half of an idea, in search of another half.

At the bottom of the Garden - WTF??

Turnover - Theoretically, this could make for an interesting story. But not for these motivations. It just doesn't make sense. I'm beginning to wonder if part of the issue is just that she doesn't know what makes good sci-fi either.

Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction - A writing exercise set in the same world as her Small Change series, but has a bit of the feeling of her My Real Children. But both full length versions are so fantastic this just seems paltry in comparison.