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I'm blazing through the Tor "Nevertheless She Persisted" short story event and this is my favorite so far. So powerful."My real mouth is full of sharp teeth and a sharper tongue, three languages coiled like snakes in my throat, scaly and silent. My real mouth is an armoury of words forged in the furnace of my chest, hot as a spitted sun. My real mouth is a storm, and my voice is thunder.To pass among you I wear a different mouth: full lips unparted, always smiling. I paint it pretty colours. It
This was a beautifully written character sketch of what it means to be two people: one, your true self that you keep hidden inside for fear that others will see it. And the other, the self you keep on the outside for others to see. It is a beautiful commentary on the strength of human nature, and the growing problems that my country and others are having with immigration, differences, and intolerance. The judgment, the willingness to persecute based on skin color or a name, or facial features, d...
Brilliant!Tor.com commissioned a series of short stories inspired by the phrase "Nevertheless, she persisted."This is the best one in the collection.
I have composed 1200 reviews in a decade but find that I must approach “Anabasis” differently. I will record what I had gotten out of this story, then enumerate what it took to understand its contexts in order to write anything at all; along with rereading it anew today. This is one reason my grade is 3 stars. Grasping a small piece of writing should not take on-the-spot education in Greek terminology, reading a news item local to me, nor consulting other people’s reviews to sift out an American...
I read the title: Anabasis! I settle in, full of hope and excitement, for another take on Xenophon and his march. Then I realize: it's a free short story published online by Tor, and my history with these is ... not good. Furthermore, the story is in a "famous quotation about Elizabeth Warren"-themed group, and so, presumably, was quickly written under direction. I was warned. I had an explanation for why I ought to click something else. Nevertheless, I persisted.I ought to have clicked somethin...
An odd bit of nothing story.
My mouth is a coin, and I spend it.more excellent work by tor! this is a linked-theme story project where eleven authors took the now-immortalized sentences regarding elizabeth warren’s senate-floor bouncing: She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted and each structured a story around them. the stories themselves are really short, so i’m not going to write a proper review around them, but you should definitely check them out, and i’ve even left a load of links at
5★“The border’s eye looks at me and we wrestle, as his eye tries to change me into Arab or Muslim, and I struggle to remain Canadian.”Anabasis: a military advance into the interior of a country [from ancient Greek].Freezing weather, miserable conditions, but this mother keeps encouraging her young child to continue putting one foot in front of the other, trudging through the snow to the Canadian border. “Her child said, ‘Mama, I want to die in the snow.’”She tells us she’s a shape-shifter and th...
loved it, and good to know that "Nevertheless, she persisted" cause i don't think even that mouth is much help and i don't even have that mouth to help her or me or thousands i see on the news every day. may a time come when we don't need the "Nevertheless" or anyone, he or she "persist"ing, and mouths can smile or devour, show pearls or sharp teeth and still pass borders and walk!
Short, sharp, and like a pointy stick, it desires to find enemies.That being said, I LOVE the shape-changer motif and love how it tells us how absurd it is to pigeonhole ANYONE.This might be a short story for a women's collection, but I will take it for myself.Read here orhttps://www.tor.com/2017/03/08/anabas...
I was saving this one for the last because I loved Time War. As it so happens I read it while struggling with death and deportation myself, and this struck home.A little context.
Anyone who knows anything about Western history should easily understand the reference to the title "Anabasis." It is a classic retreat story, of 10,000 Greek mercenary soldiers who need to march from Babylon back to the Mediterranean Sea, during the time of the Persian wars. It is a classic military text, it is an adventure story, it is the ultimate stranger in a stranger land. It served as an inspiration for Alexander the Great. It is, in short, awesome stuff. So I was really hoping for awesom...
I read this as part of the collection Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project .This story can be found online. First, I thought I had better check what "anabasis" meant - "Anabasis (from Greek ana = "upward", bainein = "to step or march") is an expedition from a coastline up into the interior of a country" according to Wikipedia.Upon starting to read this I was completely entranced by an early section which I found rivetingly poetic -"My real mouth is full of sharp teeth and a sharper...
https://www.tor.com/2017/03/08/anabas...This is a beautiful short piece that blends fiction and nonfiction. A segment in the life of, crossing the border between countries, and the thoughts that dwell within the narrator.It reminds me of a long-lost piece I wrote about my own experience entering Japan as a college student. Amal El-Mohtar tells her tale better than I did, and with more teeth.
I really liked this one and will try to read something else from its author.
My real mouth is full of sharp teeth and a sharper tongue, three languages coiled like snakes in my throat, scaly and silent. My real mouth is an armoury of words forged in the furnace of my chest, hot as a spitted sun. My real mouth is a storm, and my voice is thunder.To pass among you I wear a different mouth: full lips unparted, always smiling. I paint it pretty colours. It speaks only when spoken to, softly. To pass among you, it tells you stories:I am sweetness. I am sunshine. I am here to
Back in 2017, for International Women's Day, a series of short stories were published on tor.com under the theme Nevertheless, She Persisted. I read a number of them and liked most of them quite a bit (it was also a good way for me to encounter unknown authors) but somehow, this one escaped me. Since I've read and loved another short story and novel by this author in the meantime, I thought I'd read this too.It's about a shapeshifter. Well, of a sort. It is hard to say what this story is about w...
Short short short.. and yet so poignant. Poetic. Evocative.I have given this short piece 5 Stars and 4 Stars, flipping back and forth between the choices, unable to decide. It might take time for this choice to settle. But I really like this piece. I am a shape-shifter. Most people are. We change our shapes day on day, replace cells, grow muscles and fat, shed hair, grow it back lighter, darker. Some of us do it faster, is all—some of us have specialties.How true. I don't know where this narrati...
Wow. Powerful. Worth a read.
It is almost silly to note this the same as a book, it is VERY VERY short, not even 1K words. 3 pages, maybe..Basically it feels like poetry, just in prose, about belonging and motherhood. No real plot, impressions of feelings and I thought was beautiful and very rereadable. (But I did read it as if were poetry, it feels like a poem).