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The Greats Come A-Callin'
Lisa says:
The Great Aunts really existed, as did Addie Mae.
(2007)
Appears in The Fantasy Magazine Anthology (from Prime Books)
Reviews:
A most unusual inheritance and a matriarchal family make this story entertaining, as well as an interesting reflection on family relationships. And the art world.
random_alex for Not If You Were The Last Short Story
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I have enjoyed everything I've read of Mantchev's this year, she has really become one of my "writers to watch" and I just love love LOVED this story... Any story featuring vintage lace and a glue gun is just kind of built for me, but it doesn't just hit my personal kinks - it's beautifully written, too.
Tansy Rayner Roberts for Not If You Were The Last Short Story
Excerpt:
"Not one of those new-fangled electric monstrosities," Great Great Aunt Mabel said from the depths of my handbag, somewhere between the Tic Tacs and a dry cleaning receipt. "A treadle is the only way to go if you want to have any control over your fabric."
"But I don't want a sewing machine." I hitched my purse up my arm, fighting the weight of the brick inside. "I don't need it and I don't have room for it. I don't know how to sew, for Christ's sake, much less on a rusty old Singer."
"Don't take the name of the Lord in vain, my miss." That was my Great Great Grandmother Addie Mae, but I wasn't having any of her sass.
"Oh please. We're Methodists. That's like Presbyterian Lite." I backed out of the fabric store wondering where the heck I was going to find a treadle sewing machine. "Why couldn't Meemaw have sent me a freaking knickknack instead of all y'all?"