ETA: Galaxy’s Edge has re-released TOTALED on their website.
Hi, folks,
My short story TOTALED first appeared in Mike Resnick’s Galaxy’s Edge #9 in July of 2014. That issue is no longer available online, but you can buy it as an ebook at many online booksellers.
TOTALED can be found in The Best of Galaxy’s Edge 2013-2014.
TOTALED is also available as a single short story at Amazon, BN.com and Kobo.
You can also read it for free at Wattpad.
Happy reading!
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Excellent wordcraft (particularly Maggie’s decline – and I can understand how that would have been painful to write!). Wonderfully visceral imagery. Some very interesting scientific concepts. An implausibly dystopian backstory. Several festering huge plot holes, so much so that my initial quibble grew into a lengthy multi-paragraph rant (which I’ll save for my local fanzine because I don’t want to bloat up your comments section).
You’ve got a lot of potential, Kary. If you’re able to maintain this level of quality in your execution while putting a bit more thought into your premise’s consequences and implications, and perhaps doing a bit more work on shaping your secondary characters, I won’t be surprised to see you on the ballot in future years even without a slate.
Hi, Danny,
Thank you for reading and reviewing.