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Michigan Seems Like a Dream to Me Now by Marissa Lingen, [personal profile] mrissa. A soft, gentle post-apocalyptic bedtime story.

I was surprised to hear the narrator called "mommy" toward the end - I had assumed it was a dad putting the kid to bed. Not sure whether I was projecting from similar stories read in childhood that always had male protagonists, or if there was some other signal that made my brain think it was a guy speaking. I'm curious if anyone else had that reaction.

Date: 2022-09-26 08:21 pm (UTC)
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Curious--do you happen to remember any names or titles for the earlier stories you've read?

Date: 2022-09-28 05:16 am (UTC)
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Ah, I see. I've read it (amidst a pile of Nortons, aged 8-12 or so), but I'd forgotten the dad entirely!

Date: 2022-09-30 07:02 pm (UTC)
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Maybe your version was an earlier version of the one I read, because I didn't see a "mommy" in the one that I looked at. I think it's a good thought experiment, to see how you would read the story on the assumption that the narrator is a man versus the assumption that the narrator is a woman.

Also, as someone who's lived a lot in Mshign, the memories selected for the very short story are familiar ones, even if they're not the exact ones I have.

Date: 2022-10-01 01:28 am (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
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Ah, there it is. Apparently my ability to observe things had gone to terrible, given how much I've been missing the obvious. That said, it does sound like a Mommy story to me, because there's an informality about it that I usually don't get with Daddy stories.

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