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Showing posts with label Nullity of Choice. Show all posts
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Monday, February 4, 2019

"The Nullity of Choice"

by John Tynes
originally published Singers of Strange Songs, Chaosium, 1997

A serial-killer thinks he's Yibb-Tstll.  Or aspires to be.  Or is under the influence of.  Anyway, he kills a bunch of people quite horribly while being pursued by a CID detective who's very smart and sardonic but has dumb assistants.

I'm always wary when a character in a story refers to his gun not as his "gun" or "rifle" or "pistol" but by it's make and model.  This inevitably leads to a painstaking description of what a wound from this weapon will make in you i.e. a hole bigger than he Mariana Trench or some such.  And Tynes commits this sin right in the third paragraph!

Fortunately, this tale turns out not to be a bit of right-wing gun nuttery (whew!) but instead a sort of Thomas Harris-like serial killer short with some humor injected via the police inspector.  But it's little more than vignette and not that memorable unless you enjoy the gore-wallowing.