The Paper Clip

The short story that I have read for this week is called paper clip and it’s by Arthur Colin, and it is in the genre of science fiction. This short story is a very interesting read due to the fact that it is about paper clips and little tubes that send them from peoples cubicles to this ladies cubicle so that she can do the most important job of sending the paper clips to a incinerator. If you ask me I don’t that that’s a very important job. This author doesn’t really have that much time to develop any character backgrounds, which really is too bad because I think that it would really help his story out a lot. I didn’t really see a lot of elements of science fiction in this story except for one the use of nanotechnology. I think its very confusing how Arthur Colin ended the story, it didn’t seem to make a lot of since to me the girl that does the paper clips gets fired from her job and then goes down the golden elevator with her new boss who shoves her out and she lands on her face. I don’t know what to think off the ending.

An EYE for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth

This week I read a short story called An Eye for an Eye and a tooth for a tooth, its by Lawrence Schimel and it’s from The Mammoth book of comic fantasy. First off this is a really strange story it is like deep dark horrifying tooth fairy story, and if I were a little kid reading this I would defiantly not ever want to loose any teeth again as well as sleep again, just because of all the horrifying elements of this story. This girl lost her eyeball her teeth and something in her ear so she couldn’t hear anything anymore. The author of this story doesn’t take a whole lot of time out to develop her character but does try to describe a few things about her while telling the story of when she was little and liked to get money from the tooth fairy. I do however like the way that the author turned a fairytale story into a horror story and kind of change the way that we perceive those types of creatures we all no and love and it kind of makes me think a little bit about and now im wondering maybe if the tooth fairy is this way the maybe Santa clause and the Easter bunny are not so nice but are actually the bad guys. Maybe Santa really takes kids and makes them toys are maybe the Easter bunny is made up of eggs or something really strange like that, I don’t know it could happen.

The Aquatic Uncle..Nov 5

For this weeks blog I have just read a short story called the Aquatic Uncle by Italo Calvino. fist of all i must say this was a very interesting little story and if your reading this and haven't read it yet, i recommend that you do, it has some interesting theories of evaluation. I especially love how the author keeps you guessing what these land creatures are and even the water fish, i mean he gives you slight clues of what they could be near the beginning of the story but not enough to actually know for sure. they talk about how toads have warts and stuff so it kind of gives you the clue that they could be frogs or something but your still wondering about the uncle. I also like the fact that they brought a girl frog into this and that the land frog was going to marry her but then it put a very bazaar twist on the end and she ended up learning how to swim and she basically became like a tadpole and married the boys uncle. which i thought was alittle bit weird that they got married because he is supposed to be this very old fish and she's so young. I really like how this story tells you what the authors version of evaluation is and how they think it came to be.. like i said before really great short story, and if you ever have anytime you should take a sec to chill and get away from the world, and read the aquatic uncle