Jeremiah Tolbert

Strange Horizons Fiction: We Love Deena, by Alice Sola Kim, illus­tra­tion by Hellen JoIt’s the clas­sic tale of love lost, obses­sive love. Girl meet edgy girl, who kills peo­ple pro­fes­sion­ally for the gov­ern­ment. Girl loses edgy girl. Girl pos­sesses half the other women on the planet attempt­ing to seduce edgy girl once more. Haven’t we read this one a mil­lion times before?

Well, no, actu­ally. This is actu­ally pretty good. The pro­tag­o­nist is believ­able, even sym­pa­thetic in her stalker ways. The story moves along at a very nice clip, and it ends in the only way it could. I’ve never heard of Alice Sola Kim before, but I will be look­ing for­ward to more.

Still have that death obses­sion going a lit­tle, Strange Horizons. This story was perky, but still kinda dark and twisted like every­thing else lately.

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Tags: SF, Short Story, strange horizons