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The Taste of Chicory at High Tide
Lisa says:
Special thanks to Casey Callahan, for showing me where to start on this one.
(2005) Appears in Strange Horizons
Reviews:
Second-place winner in the Fiction category in the 2005 Strange Horizons Reader's Choice Awards.
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Mantchev's description starts out so vivid that it is almost too much. If the story or characters were different, it would be too much, but this time it turns out just right. The sentences are so packed with imagery that it's best for the reader to just let go and let them flow like the mighty Mississippi River.
Aimee Poynter at Tangent Online
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Mantchev pushes her prose over the top to characterize the goddess... Her boyfriend is not at first so readily identifiable, but at the end, readers will surely recognize him.
Lois Tilton at The Internet Review of Science Fiction
Excerpt:
I met her on a blind date, a double dare, a fateful set-up by chaotic kismet. She strapped red boots on my feet and we danced until my blisters had blisters. She spoon-fed me spicy swamp creatures and fried bread that forever ruined me for ordinary food. We drank until I puked. She stole my wallet, got me shot at by her jealous ex-boyfriend and gave me a raging case of the crabs. I wanted to take her out again anyway, but the bitch wouldn't return my phone calls. Until now.
"I need you. Please come," she said.
I couldn't fly there (no more airplanes for me, thanks,) but I still answered her summons. It was a really long walk.