Your Suggested Weekend Reading · 1:46am Sep 29th, 2018
This is where I suggest a story and try to convince you to read it this weekend. Today, I'd like to suggest Filly, Separated. The SF great, Kim Stanley Robinson, told me while giving pointers on writing that the most important thing to know is the message you are trying to get across. If you select something that tears into your soul, you'll give the story that special something that will resonate with your readers. Filly Separated is that; it was conceived as a message about what it feels like to know you have lost your parents—not through being orphaned—but to have physically lost them. Ugh, you may scoff. Topical. Newsy. But it's MLP. Who are Spike's parents? That's not the focus of the story, but rather the elephant in the room.
Read it.
