I didn't write about this story when I first read it. I think it's possible I hadn't yet started this blog. Or I was busy. But I want to mention:
Yearlight Savings Time by Kevin Griffith. Published in the August '09 issue of PANK.
This is fantastical fiction about Americans trying to relive a year exactly as it happened the year before in an attempt to stave off the end of the world. The story centers on one man, the narrator. His personal hopes and failures are perfectly interwoven into the story of a world struggling to relive the past in order to have a future.
It's fantastical fiction at its best because it makes you think AND feel. Given how many stories I read, I think it's a sign of this one's power that it keeps returning to me. So I wanted to mention it.
And encourage you to read it if you haven't.
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damn is that a fine story. thanks man.
ReplyDeleteIt'll stick to your gut, man.
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