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 A Plagued Land  [E]
Short story, flash fiction
by James Munz
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Review by runoffscribe
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lash fiction, a story in a snapshot -- or a short animation of say, twenty frames.
         Take an image, maybe the first in the series. Put it into your editing software and create a negative version. All together, you will see the bones are good. The basic structure is solid, if not complete.
         From this point, a writer can begin to challenge the trite. If Deathspeaker is capitalized, then perhaps we should also capitalize Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker. Despite the staff and robes, she strikes me as one of many workers. She is of a class, like clearcutters among clearcutters or plunderers among plunderers. Devastation is just her job, five days a week.
         What happens to Selendre? Does she find herself forced to destroy something she loves? Is she betrayed when her fellows attempt to inflict the principle of Death-Makes-for-a-Better-World on her?
         Iconified by a capital, Selendre the Deathspeaker is endowed with unearned power. What ever the struggle she faces, the story is strengthened when the odds she confronts are just steep enough to demand from her more than she seems to have to give.
         I enjoyed this trifle not for the morsels, but for the space on the plate.
         Live long and publish, James Munz .
         For notes on formatting, spelling and punctuation: "Note: I have begun to write boilerplate language in..."
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