Thursday, January 4, 2018

M. John Harrison's "The Crisis"


My gaydar set off on this one immediately. False positive? Read for yourself (it's a really good short story all on its own). And for those of you like me unfamiliar with "mercuric sulphocyanate" — voilĂ   pharaoh's serpent!

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing this, Tim; it's a very unsettling story. I don't believe your gaydar is off, but that aspect seems very much in the background to me.

    Cheers, Steve

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  2. oh yes, very much in the background, I agree, though part of the general AIDS-like malaise/maladies

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