= "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"TaoPhoenix wrote:.
The Hand By Omar Zahzah
Moderator: Editors
- Robert_Moriyama
- Editor Emeritus
- Posts: 2379
- Joined: December 31, 1969, 08:00:00 PM
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Contact:
Re: The Hand By Omar Zahzah
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London (1876-1916)
Jack London (1876-1916)
- Robert_Moriyama
- Editor Emeritus
- Posts: 2379
- Joined: December 31, 1969, 08:00:00 PM
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Contact:
Re: The Hand By Omar Zahzah
In my correspondence with the author, I noted the twist -- the "evil hand" plot thwarted by the ego and vanity of the transplant recipient. Haunted hand 0, Me Generation 1.regrehan wrote:Well ... it certainly qualifies as dark and disturbing. I expected it to go someplace, but it never went ... it just ended. I wish the author had done more with it, because the unusual perspective was good.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London (1876-1916)
Jack London (1876-1916)
- Lester Curtis
- Long Fiction Editor
- Posts: 2736
- Joined: January 11, 2010, 12:03:56 AM
- Location: by the time you read this, I'll be somewhere else
Re: The Hand By Omar Zahzah
I think it might have been better without all the many repetitions of "If I were conscious . . . " They only serve to remind that the narrator isn't conscious, and therefor shouldn't be narrating anything.
The ending was unsatisfying, too; the 'host' defeated the evil transplant by simply neglecting it to death. Where's the struggle in that?
The ending was unsatisfying, too; the 'host' defeated the evil transplant by simply neglecting it to death. Where's the struggle in that?
I was raised by humans. What's your excuse?