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Here’s the reality, girl, girlfriend, goddess, goddamn goner: You’re gonna have to get out of hell all by yourself.this is lovely and anthemic, and despite all the cussin' and fuckin' (or perhaps because of them), this is a perfect story to give teengirls on the cusp of womanhood—a litany of the perils of being a female in love, with youth's tendency to elevate the object of your affection to godlike status, whether that god be orpheus, icarus, zeus, etc, reducing your status to a rapt spongelik...
You’ll fall in love again. You’ll fall out. You will not await anyone else’s version of salvation.This myth will not be recorded, but it will be yours.The start of this may not have been particularly startling, but it takes a turn into full-on invocation, and I'm now firmly of the opinion that Maria Dahvana Headley could ignite her own revolution if she so chose. (We can hope!)Free here: https://www.tor.com/2020/01/23/a-girl...
Read this a week or two ago and really loved it. Kind of a literary experiment, but it worked. Headley’s writing feels really powerful to me, though I haven’t quite figured out why. I’m looking forward to more of her work in the future.
So good!!
How had I not heard of Headley before her Beowulf translation? Because 😍🤩🤯After reading Beowulf and this short story I now know I'm going to devour everything else she's ever written.
Here's the reality, girl, girlfriend, goddess, goddamn goner: You're gonna have to get out of hell all by yourself.This was powerful. Although I felt that the final paragraphs were repetitive. But it gets a powerful point across.
I wanted to like this but it felt like the author was trying a bit too hard to be clever and it didn't quite hang together. There's an interesting concept in here but it's buried under attempts to be cool. Lots of wonderful writing at the sentence level but doesn't function well at the plot level. Just read Circe instead.
Not really my thing. I don't like cliche motivational speech type of writing styles. This was a very dramatic one. I'm giving it 2 stars for a good idea. I was really excited about the second person narrative, but unfortunately this didn't work for me.
You stand at the mouth of your own cave, looking out over your own kingdom. You step off the cliff when you feel like it, and you spread your wings and soar.This was just awesome.
I appreciated the first half more than the second one.Second person POV can be amazingly powerful, and it was, until it and its message became redundant in the way a lot of feminist writing (usually seen in poetry format) tends to be. It worked for me a few years ago but I now feel infantilized by it, and therefore find it annoying at best. Maybe it will work for you if this is the first piece of fiction you find that tries to do that, but it just didn't work for me.
Unlike most of the other reviewers I didn't enjoy this story at all. It simply didn't resonate with me.I'm fairly familiar with Greek mythology but even that ultimately didn't save this text (not really a story if you ask me).I lost interest about mid-way through the text and was happy when it finally was over.This is the second story of Headley's I've read. The first was the very short Astronaut which is absolutely amazing!Whether you like this story, do yourself a favor and check out Astronaut...
"You will not, in the end, be broken by this history of hell, these hurts, these old boyfriends and husbands and rapists and forget-me-nots.You‘ll forget those fuckers, those fucks, those fields other than Elysian." It's a gem, read it here
