The Avenger of Love: 05/23/09
"The Avenger of Love" in the April / May issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction is dedicated to Harlan Ellison. I haven't read enough of his work to get the connection between Skillingstead's story and Ellison's writing. Despite the gap in my reading I liked the story.
Norman Helmcke an "aging pit bull" of a lawyer realizes one day that he's lost the vital essence of his first love. Rather than accept these gaps in his memory as part of growing old, he goes on a quest to find the thief who is stealing his memories.
The story reminds me most of "Unpossible" by Daryl Gregory which is another FSF story about lost moments in childhood.
fantasy science fiction magazine | fiction | short story | Jack Skillingstead | 2009
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