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I’m glad, though, that it was a short short story. 270 comments. If you were a dinosaur, you'd be a gorgesaurus. Pulling the child by the shirt collar, she crosses the street and ducks into a grocery. but a hugo and nebula award nomination? "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" is a short story by American writer Rachel Swirsky. ( Log Out /  I’d avert my eyes from the newspapers when they showed photographs of the men’s tearful widows and fatherless children, just as they must avert their eyes from the newspapers that show my face. 100% Upvoted. Green chiffon would turn into leaves. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Funny how that works — how whether revenge-murder porn is just that, or Art, or something worse, depends chiefly on whose gory death is being fantasized. When you thought I was asleep, you’d cry unrequited love songs into the night. Which one are you? Reading stories like this discourage me from pursuing my own interest as a writer. 5. View More. I’m not sure what the negative commenters are seeing when they picture “five blustering men soaked in gin and malice” who beat up an apparently fragile-looking palentologist but I suspect it’s got more to do with their own preconceptions and with whom in the story they are identifying than what the words say. A woman was walking down the street with her young child. What dinosaur would you be? Very well-written and moving. He’d have the power and ferocity of a dinosaur, not to do violence, but to avoid it. It is magnificently beautiful. This was amazing. And because those with a damaged empathy never fail to reveal themselves when they read it. I read and I rebel, because things are rarely this cut and dried, rarely as simple as they are portrayed here, like this person, hate those, these are the good guys, those are the bad: I can get easy simple polarized views at any particular biased news outlet of my choice, and this is junk, no offense to anybody who may or may not have been hurt in any inspiring incident that may or may not have occurred. The worst kind of story I can think of. But both of those are undeniably SF. Your eyes … October 16, 2015 October 16, 2015 The Peculiarist fantasy, Review Apex Magazine, Brainery, fantasy, poems, poetic prose, poetry, Rachel Swirsky, review, short story, writing. Near the end, you have the *childish* “I’M GONNA KILL THEM!!! A dinosaur is one of the animals and the creativity between the two is about the same. this is not science fiction. Here, that’s not really the case: the distancing effect of metafiction leaves us, ultimately, in Stein’s Oakland. Well, imagine how you'd feel if you were the single member of your time-traveling expedition who happened to materialize right beneath the tail of a cramped-up Bruhathkayosaurus—and you were instantly smothered by a 300-pound load of steaming hot dinosaur poop. A gentle lure before a hard squeeze on the heart. In today’s post, I will be writing about if I was a dinosaur. The paleontologist’s fiancée who waits by the bedside of a man who will probably never wake. I would totally go for a cow or something! She’s happy, but her heart is breaking, and this is her fantasy. I’d pull out a hydrangea the shade of the sky and press it against my heart and my heart would beat like a flower. Thank you! In other words, thoroughly likable. You’d stand onstage, talons digging into the floorboards. Terrific story. Well-written and written with artistry, but I don’t like what it says. Rachel Swirsky holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop and graduated from Clarion West in 2005. Wander.℗ 1349682 Records DKReleased on: 2019-07-19Auto-generated by YouTube. We’ve been hearing a story from somebody who, we now know, is a really and truly decent person to the important people in her life, and something is not right. Seriously? I would say get a clue, but I’m quite sure you wouldn’t recognize one. (The preceding records, Dinosaur, You're Living All Over Me and Bug, were reissued last year by Merge.) I also love that the people who are decrying this as ignorant are showing their own ignorance in their assumptions. We like her for that. That implies that working class normal people are drunks,play pool and are bigots. Just wanted to say, “Well done.”. Doubting Rich, just out of curiosity, how do you know what universities the other commenters attended? Amazing Reading Time Experience. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. “…works of writing”? i think i could write an actual scifi story and i haven’t taken any sort of writing class since i was in high school over 10 years ago. A magnificent story. You have been shivved by a master. ... while a T. rex would pretty much pulverize you. How reporters adore my face, the face of the paleontologist’s fiancée with her half-planned wedding, bouquets of hydrangeas already ordered, green chiffon bridesmaid dresses already picked out. If you were a dinosaur... what would you be? I’m a “working class” woman. From my throat, bees would drink exotic nectars. One of the most unconventional stories I have ever read, and one that pays off with infinite rewards. None of the naysayers seems capable of coherent thought, much less quality writing. However, these are hypotheticals I’ve already read before, and though they are made more interesting by the implementation of a dinosaur as a character: I do not personally believe the existence of a dinosaur in a story to be a legitimate enough reason for it to be categorically science fiction. Reader, Rachel Swirsky just stabbed you in the guts by breaking a pattern. if you do please take my others, … Thanks and congratulations on your award. It establishes the structure of the story as a series of If/then statements. share. 1. I’d stare at the two of you standing together by the altar and I’d love you even more than I do now. A brilliantly written love story with a sharp haunting edge to it. I’d avert my eyes from the newspapers when they showed photographs of the men’s tearful widows and fatherless children, just as they must avert their eyes from the newspapers that show my face. This does not deserve to be called the best short story the field can produce. I’d trust in your teeth and talons to keep you/me/us safe now and forever from the scratch of chalk on pool cues, and the scuff of the nurses’ shoes in the hospital corridor, and the stuttering of my broken heart. 99% Upvoted. Whereas you—fragile, lovely, human you—must rely on wits and charm. For no particular reason, I would like to hereby publicly state that while nobody I love is a dinosaur, I have no compassion for anybody else’s family, and I do an uncanny impression of a wrathful god. It establishes the structure of the story as a series of If/then statements. This is not speculative fiction, as hard as it tries to make us think so. Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from Apex Magazine. Your bony brow-ridge the hell did this ever get nominated let alone had any meaningful interaction speculative... People are drunks, play pool and are bigots budding candidates at interview me when I say that is.... 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