APB-SAL is a blog about education, science, science education, fiction, science fiction, literature, literary stories, poetry, and anything else that strikes the blogger's fancy. NOTE: This blog interrogates art. It rarely make moral proclamations. For that attend the church or politician of your choice. This blog concerns aesthetics, not propaganda. Consider this as interviews with books where the interviewer presents interviewees, so you get what you need to do your own thinking.
Marie and Claude discover that statues are mouthing something slowly, so slowly that it’s barely observable. They race--against time, against museum officials, and against the masses who are frightened by the mystery--to translate the words and discover it’s a countdown. But counting down to what?
An engaging puzzle story with some interesting discussion of linguistics. Tony Pi has gone on to publish stories in Abyss and Apex as well as Clarkesworld.
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