- What are some possible themes?
- How is writing like medicine? How is it not like medicine?
- Within the narrative, how do the two stack up in action?
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.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
"Story Child" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Synopsis: Much of the population had mysteriously disappeared one morning--what the survivors called the "Abandonment." What followed was two years of one epidemic after another, filling the local high school cafeteria. A doctor, the narrator, mourns his family's disappearance. Even he falls sick to disease. A mysterious child appears on a skimmer. The child heals the sick by telling stories about the abandonment. Paradoxically, the pain that should accompany being reminded of the loss of one's loved ones begets hope. The people heal and leave the hospital.
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