Kij Johnson's "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" (short story, fantasy, free): Description of a magical trick
It made very easy read, but what the heck is the point of the story? But it's included in a "best of 2008" anthology & is on this year's Nebula preliminary ballet - so take your call.
Story summary.
Aimee owns a bunch of monkeys who can perform a vanishing trick on stage in fairs - they enter an ordinary tub, & vanish in front of audience. After some hours, they return to Aimee's tour bus, sometimes bringing in trinkets from apparently far away places. No one, not even Aimee, has a clue to what happens. That's the whole story.Collected in.
- Jonathan Strahan (Ed)'s "Best SF and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3" (2009).
Fact sheet.
First published: Asimov's, July 2008.Rating: B.
Download full text from author's or publisher's website.
Nominated for Hugo Award 2009 in short story category.
Nominated for Nebula Award 2008 in short story category.
Related: Stories of Kij Johnson.
2 comments:
Re-read sections 14 & 15. And take out the word "might".
Thanks John.
So it's about personal grief & the resulting pessimism in protagonist's outlook. With vanishing monkeys used in a symbolic way.
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