fwriction

The story of the day for this weekend comes from the new issue of fwriction : review - Stephen Hastings-King’s “Elsewhere.” I love this story, and evidently, so do others:

“This story kind of kills.”  -Lindsay Hunter

“That was incredible and so many great lines that I couldn’t gush over just a few…Loved this!”  -Meg Tuite

“This cryptic story is like a puzzle in darks and lights and sneaks up on you. I like the form used, the feeling of a maze.”  -Susan Tepper

“I read this piece [on Fictionaut] first, and then at fwriction : review yesterday and I love the structure, the word choice and the inventive puzzle behind it. Only you, Stephen, could create something so dazzling.”  -Robert Vaughan

“Good news, good story, and fwriction must be the best name for a magazine of late.”  -Ann Bogle 

Please, enjoy this story over the weekend, and check out the other great writing at fwriction : review!

From “Elsewhere”:

I do not remember him sitting down across the table from me. He is not from here; he talks about elsewhere. 

They say that when the surface of a photograph gets like this that it has gone blind and what was captured in it has been let loose again.

On the table, he turns over a photograph, a gray square with a white border.

But what was captured has grown used to its flat tiny world.  Once released, each has nowhere to go.  

He holds a pile of photographs. He handles them like playing cards.