I really liked this story. Really. It was amazingly well-written, really tight, everything weighed perfectly for effect.
The reading was also quite good.
But, yet again, not horror. As said by someone else, yes, "weird" would probably cover it. And the turn from benevolent to tyrannical God was compelling but it struck me as a really well done, modern Fantasy tale and, so, shouldn't this be on Podcastle (I don't listen to Podcastle or Escape Pod)?
Yes, little beings are creepy. Maniacal or crafty little beings are scary (see "Prey" by Matheson or "Battleground" by King). I could even buy the idea of of a murderous "Giant" set on wiping out the little beings as kinda scary (kind of a hard sell but it could be done - "The Borrowers" as horror story) but this didn't seem to be evoking any kind of scary or creepy tone, just matter-of-fact.
An excellent story. Not a horror story. But an excellent story!
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“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small).”
Julio Cortazar, “Julios In Action”, AROUND THE DAY IN EIGHTY WORLDS