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Northern Lights: 20 MinnSpec Tales ToC: #11. "Can't Stop, Won't" by Carrie Devall
I've never met Carrie Devall in person. It seems odd, since we've been in MinnSpec together for a long time, but there you have it. Since I didn't have a personal story, I went out and found this:
Carrie Devall writes science fiction and fantasy short stories as well as literary fiction and poetry, and attended the Clarion West speculative fiction workshop in 2007. She won first prize in the 2010 Odyssey Con Speculative Fiction Contest, and her poem "Highsmith" made the short list in the Chroma Magazine Fall 2009 queer literary competition. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in the blog and newsletter of Aqueduct Press, a feminist science fiction publisher. After spending her formative years as a rowdy queer, anti-racist, and AIDS activist, she has practiced public interest law in San Francisco, Tucson, and the Twin Cities.
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"Can't Stop, Won't" is the shortest story in the anthology. Yes, I purposely put it after the longest story to give the reader a break. It is also one of the quirkiest stories, and I think a fine example of good, tight writing. With a fully realized science fiction setting and a character you care about quickly, "Can't Stop, Won't" packs a lot of story into a mere 500 words.
"Can't Stop, Won't" was the 2010 Odyssey Con Speculative Fiction Contest Winner: Adult Division, and was originally published at www.oddcon.com/stories.html, March 2010.
Purchase Northern Lights: 20 MinnSpec Tales here.
I've never met Carrie Devall in person. It seems odd, since we've been in MinnSpec together for a long time, but there you have it. Since I didn't have a personal story, I went out and found this:
Carrie Devall writes science fiction and fantasy short stories as well as literary fiction and poetry, and attended the Clarion West speculative fiction workshop in 2007. She won first prize in the 2010 Odyssey Con Speculative Fiction Contest, and her poem "Highsmith" made the short list in the Chroma Magazine Fall 2009 queer literary competition. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in the blog and newsletter of Aqueduct Press, a feminist science fiction publisher. After spending her formative years as a rowdy queer, anti-racist, and AIDS activist, she has practiced public interest law in San Francisco, Tucson, and the Twin Cities.
--- http://www.hamline.edu/gls/about_us/queervoices.html
"Can't Stop, Won't" is the shortest story in the anthology. Yes, I purposely put it after the longest story to give the reader a break. It is also one of the quirkiest stories, and I think a fine example of good, tight writing. With a fully realized science fiction setting and a character you care about quickly, "Can't Stop, Won't" packs a lot of story into a mere 500 words.
"Can't Stop, Won't" was the 2010 Odyssey Con Speculative Fiction Contest Winner: Adult Division, and was originally published at www.oddcon.com/stories.html, March 2010.
Purchase Northern Lights: 20 MinnSpec Tales here.
