“Doesn’t it feel good to be noticed? Needed? We don’t feel at all. We were never needed. Or wanted. We want you.” If you’ve read a lot of short speculative fiction, you’ve probably read a story with the royal we POV and a body with a legion of personalities inside that Koji A. Dae uses here. But she has a chilling twist at the end that brought the story from familiar to exciting. Our narrator (narrators?) was lonely before meeting “You.” You accepted them for who they were, but you’ll regret it soon enough…
Three-Lobed Burning Eye (Issue 39)
