Review: This Happens
And in the most recent issue, #205, there's one of *those* stories. One that excited me so much when I read it that I rewrote it fifty different ways in my head before I got to the end, only to realise that, yes, the way the author did it was the best way after all. It's a very simple story about catastrophe befalling innocents in a war-zone and, like the best science fiction, it could not be more relevant to the world we live in right now, today.
It's brilliant.
It's by David Mace.
It's called This Happens.
Interzone has rolled on past its 200th issue and it's as bright and lively and interesting and provocative as when I first started reading it 20-odd years ago, but it shouldn't be taken for granted. We shouldn't just notice peripherally that it happens, and it expect it to keep on happening.
Go check out Interzone. You'll find it on your newsagent shelves. If you've got the disposables, take out a subscription.
Read This Happens, and be grateful. Be amazed.