Andy Duncan's "Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse" (short story, humor): An avatar of Jesus Christ!
This is among the more entertaining (but not outstanding) stories from Nebula Awards 2007 short story finalists - what if it's neither science fiction nor fantasy.
Full text of this story is available for download.
Story summary.
5 year old Mary O’Connor is obsessed with a strange idea: that a unique-looking chicken in her family's chicken farm is an avatar of Jesus Christ! She even has supporting evidence: "he's different from all the other chickens, and the other chickens peck him but he never pecks back, and he spends a lot of his time looking up in the air, praying, and in Matthew Jesus says he's a chicken, and if I get a stomachache or an earache or a sore throat, I come out here and play with him and it gets all better just like the lame man beside the well."A priest, Father Leggett, is called to talk her out of it. While the girl will soon get out of this fixation, the priest will be haunted by strange & magical chickens rest of his life!
Fact sheet.
"Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse", short story, reviewFirst published: Jonathan Strahan (Ed)'s "Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy", October 2007.
Rating: B
Nebula Awards 2007 finalist in short story category.
1 comments:
I would have to agree with you about this one. While it is a well written and somewhat entertaining short story, I thought the story line (and especially the ending) just didn't have enough "umph" to it.
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