Re: Your Stone
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Just a story about a regular fella trying to do his job by sending some emails to please get that stone moved back to where it should be.
Read if you like: knowing that you definitely did actually attach the attachment to the email this time; Bureaucracy (game) by Douglas Adams; the sinking sensation that we have made reality a bit more like Hades than it needs to be.
- Recommended by Alex Brown in Must Read Short Speculative Fiction, April 2023 for Reactor
- Recommended by Charles Payseur in his Locus short fiction review: “Un packs in humor without ever breaking the verisimilitude of the piece, reimagining a Sisyphus just as cursed as the original but with a fresh spin for contemporary audiences. It’s delightful!”
- Included in A.C. Wise’s Favourite Short Stories of 2023
- Included in Danai’s Dispatch by Danai Christopolou
- Included in John Wiswell’s Big Recommended Short Story Reading List for 2023 (paywall)
Published in Diabolical Plots Issue 98A, April 2023. (Edited by David Steffen.)