Comes The Huntsman
Rachael Acks blogs at katsudon.net. She was most recently published in LightSpeed’s Women Destroy Science Fiction issue. She is currently working on a short film she wrote the script for, here.
ETA 7/23 11pm: It slipped my mind that this was a gift story, so there’s that too.
I didn’t really like this story all that much honestly. Just seemed really heavy handed.
Very touching. So subtle and picturesque. Like a dream that was really true all along.
The opening song in this story reading – what is this song? And why once I heard 5gat it starts with words “three/tree world’s collide”, and now something different? Do I have perception “filtering” and changing?