A couple of links

[megwrites]

irysangel has posted a freebie short story that I definitely recommend. Zombie fairy tales for the win. Also, I defy you to think of the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast the same way again. Go ahead. It's a really good, and truly amusing story. Pixel stained technopeasantry at its best.

There was a great essay that truepenny wrote about Neil Gaiman's "Problem of Susan", which is a short story he wrote in reaction to C.S. Lewis's treatment of Susan in the subsequent Narnia books. It's a good view on Lewis.

But I didn't link it originally, because I realized that a lot of people might not have read "The Problem of Susan", which appears in Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things short story collection. Thus, the essay might not make much sense.

Then I realized I conveniently have a way to help out with that.

The Problem of Susan, as read by Neil Gaiman. mp3 format, 19.7Mb, 21:29 mins. Plus, there's a bonus preamble about him getting meningitis.

By the by, I would've sued or at least waggled a fist at the first doctor who said Neil Gaiman just had the flu. A patient presents with flu-like symptoms and neck pain enough to warrant pain meds and you don't at least run a couple of tests? Then you're sort of doing medicine *wrong*.

Anyway. So, now you have access to the story. And I do strongly encourage you to buy Fragile Things, or any Neil Gaiman book you can get your hands on. Particularly Smoke and Mirrors, which made me love short stories and poetry again for, like, a whole week.

Let me know if the download putters out. The file sharing this way is only good for a week, and for a limited number of downloads, but I'm more than happy to put it up again upon request.

However, if you haven't read the Chronicles of Narnia, or at least know the basics, I can't help you out there.

Comments

[irysangel.livejournal.com]

Woo, thanks for the mention! :)

[fiction-theory.livejournal.com]

A story *that* faboo deserves maximum pimpage :)