Road: A Fairytale
Shalini Srinivasan
Strange Horizons
05/20/19
2019
ShortStory
2,980 words
Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
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A road is so nasty that it attains consciousness when it becomes aware of just how “not-nice” it really is.
SlipstreamClass InequalityWhimsical
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Darkly ComicMagical RealismConsciousnessLyricalUrbanLyrical ProseBelongingContemporaryGrief And LossClose Third PersonLiteraryFantasyBittersweetVoice Driven
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death
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