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mmerriam ([personal profile] mmerriam) wrote2010-09-16 05:27 am

Northern Lights: 20 MinnSpec Tales ToC: #15. "Oh, Hell"

Northern Lights: 20 MinnSpec Tales ToC: #15. "Oh, Hell" by Britt Aamodt

Every time I'm around Britt, I've enjoyed her company. Another of our multidisciplinary, multitalented writers, Britt works in scriptwriting, among other types of fiction.

I had to read "Oh, Hell" three times before I decided to take it. At first I thought it was kind of cute, but not really what I was looking for. However, after a couple of days, I went back read it again. And again. And somewhere in those reading the story grew on me, and I realized the subtext of the story was deeper than I had originally thought.

Purchase Northern Lights: 20 MinnSpec Tales here.

[identity profile] kellybarnhill.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com) 2010-09-16 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
I had the great pleasure of reading an earlier draft of this story long ago when Britt and I were in a (for me, life-changing) speculative fiction mentorship group with one Lyda Morehouse (also in this collection). I loved the story then - its wry humor, its subtle sassiness, and I'm thrilled that it's collected here. Hooray for the stories that follow us over the years!