And, hey, if this story can get accepted at Escape Pod, then mayhaps I have been too self-restrictive on what I submit. I should submit that bogeyman love story, that story with the Fey sword inheritance, the story about the undead grandma, and the one about the talking pig.
I'm going to beg that these stories
don't get picked up here at EP. Not because I don't want to hear them, I'm sure their great coming from Unblinking, but because the only reason I'm not ranting about this story not being anywhere near sci-fi is because it was the Halloween episode and it was absolutely hilarious. I'm going to keep that complaint bottled up... this time
As for the story, I loved about 95% of it. The language was perfect, the dichotomy of the setting brilliant, and there are no words in this language to praise Norm's narration. The one thing that I
really didn't like was City Boy's sudden burst of divine lightening. I mean, where did that come from? If he had this power all along, why didn't he use it earlier? And why is he so put out by all of these crazy, cultist, magical events when he KNOWS he has some mystical powers, too? I mean, the whole thing was just completely out of character and completely unnecessary in my opinion. All he used that power for was to scare off the locals so he could have his one-on-one time with Cthulhu. There's no reason he couldn't have found a non-magical and completely plausible way to scare them off without this mysterious and unexplained power. [/rant]
Other than that one quibble, I laughed myself silly listening to this brilliantly written piece.