{"id":3931,"date":"2015-02-14T17:52:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T21:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:53:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T21:53:33","slug":"short-sf-marathon-day-10-shane-halbach-maria-dahvana-headley-kat-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/2015\/02\/short-sf-marathon-day-10-shane-halbach-maria-dahvana-headley-kat-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Short SF Marathon Day 10: Shane Halbach, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kat Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nShane Halbach, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/flashfictiononline.com\/main\/article\/copy-machine\/\">Copy Machine<\/a>.&#8221; Flash Fiction Online, June 2014.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nTwo love stories on Valentine&#8217;s Day; how appropriate. The first is a jokey short-short about if only you could copy yourself or your lover in the mood you want you or them in. It reminded me a bit of Rachel Swirsky&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apex-magazine.com\/if-you-were-a-dinosaur-my-love\/\">If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love<\/a>&#8220;, in that same bittersweet imagining of the impossible so to fix your problems.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMaria Dahvana Headley, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2014\/02\/the-tallest-doll-in-new-york-city-maria-dahvana-headley\">The Tallest Doll in New York City<\/a>.&#8221; Tor.com, February 14, 2014. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nA Damon Runyon pastiche full of mock-thirties New York slang, about that Valentine&#8217;s Day that the Chrysler building finally took matters in her own hand and stepped up to the Empire State to ask him out. It shouldn&#8217;t work and it should set my teeth on edge, but Maria Dahvana Headley makes it work, makes what could&#8217;ve been cloying into something sweet. I like Lars Leetaru&#8217;s illustration quite a lot too; very <cite>New Yorker<\/cite>ish. Originally published on Valentine&#8217;s Day last year.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nKat Howard, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/howard_08_14\/\">The Saint of the Sidewalks<\/a>.&#8221; Clarkesworld, August 2014.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nKat Howard&#8217;s &#8220;The Saint of the Sidewalks&#8221; is a story about belief, about what happens when a young woman at the end of her tether asks for a miracle from the titular saint and to her horror finds herself waking up as Saint Joan of the Lightning Strike. Interestingly told, slightly Pratchettesque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Halbach, &#8220;Copy Machine.&#8221; Flash Fiction Online, June 2014. Two love stories on Valentine&#8217;s Day; how appropriate. The first is a jokey short-short about if only you could copy yourself or your lover in the mood you want you or them in. It reminded me a bit of Rachel Swirsky&#8217;s &#8220;If You Were a Dinosaur, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,728],"tags":[756,755,754],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-short-fiction","tag-kat-howard","tag-maria-dahvana-headley","tag-shane-halbach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}