Steven Barnes has been publishing science fiction for forty years, Sneaking Jordan Peele into the lecture hall, and more. Writing and publishing classes, how much fun it was to prank her students by State,” writing alongside his wife author and teacher Tananarive Due, adaptingĪ number of her standing room only seminars into a widely available series of Steven was kind enough to chat with me about what inspired “Fugue I need to know what you think of this story!! So yes, read, think about it, read again, chat with me in theĬomments or on the socials. Own Kool-Aid, I’m just another Reverend Pike cheerleader, and that’s pretty Like I said, I can try to pull the fear out. Me be a better, more loving person (and who hasn’t wanted to be a better Way of the future, maybe I’m fighting against something that just wants to help Relationship has healed, and they can now relate to each other and appreciateĮach other, but at what cost? What is Reverend Pike’s “secret power,” and howįar will these changes go? I can try to pull the fear out of the conversationīy saying that maybe there isn’t anything to be afraid of, maybe this is the What they think happens after this story ends. Your own list of the things you see that scare you, and we can compare notes onĪnother thing I’m interested in discussing with our readers is I’m going to avoid talking too closely about them. Is an entire list of things I am afraid of in this story, and, like Charlotte, Spell of … something, and to never know if you did it willingly or not.

It’s about how easy it really is to fall under the It’s about counting down the days until that

It’s easy to avoid thinkingĪbout things when you’re avoiding talking about them. Husband’s obsession with an evangelical preacher who has a cult-like following,Īnd she certainly doesn’t want to talk about the man who was killed in a carĬrash minutes after speaking to her in a diner. Herself doesn’t even want to talk about it. But there’s a lot more going on, and Charlotte On firstīlush, I thought this was a tragedy-a story about a woman whose once brilliant Tananarive Due-a few times to realize it was a dark horror story. I had to read Steven Barnes’s “Fugue State”-co-written with

Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes