This Nebula award nominated short story pushes some readers' buttons and they light up. Not mine. Maybe your's?

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It will be interesting to see how tween readers and guys respond to this contemporary dark fairy tale. I will try it out on some and let you know how it goes. The saving grace: It is short and to-the-point, though not sweet.



MY RATING versus The TWEENs (a quick avg rating of three 10 yo girls)

I had to upgrade my rating simply because the story is such a good conversation starter about the role of fiction in contemporary society! ( )

Well... this took girl drama to a whole new level. ( )