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All the Birds in the Sky
Clover
Answering the question asked by innumerable readers of the author's novel All the Birds in the what happened to Patricia's cat?
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22 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 25, 2016
About the author
Charlie Jane Anders
161 books3,947 followersMy latest book is Victories Greater Than Death. Coming in August: Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories.
Previously: All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and a short story collection, Six Months, Three Days, Five Others.
Coming soon: An adult novel, and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes.
I used to write for a site called io9.com, and now I write for various places here and there.
I won the Emperor Norton Award, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” I've also won a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, a William H. Crawford Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Award, a Locus Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
My stories, essays and journalism have appeared in Wired Magazine, the Boston Review, Conjunctions, Tin House, Slate, MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb.net, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies.
I organize Writers With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. I co-host a Hugo Award-winning podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct, with Annalee Newitz.
Back in 2007, Annalee and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine called other, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut.
I used to live in a Buddhist nunnery, when I was a teenager. I love to do karaoke. I eat way too much spicy food. I hug trees and pat stone lions for luck. I talk to myself way too much when I’m working on a story.
Previously: All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and a short story collection, Six Months, Three Days, Five Others.
Coming soon: An adult novel, and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes.
I used to write for a site called io9.com, and now I write for various places here and there.
I won the Emperor Norton Award, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” I've also won a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, a William H. Crawford Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Award, a Locus Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
My stories, essays and journalism have appeared in Wired Magazine, the Boston Review, Conjunctions, Tin House, Slate, MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb.net, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies.
I organize Writers With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. I co-host a Hugo Award-winning podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct, with Annalee Newitz.
Back in 2007, Annalee and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine called other, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut.
I used to live in a Buddhist nunnery, when I was a teenager. I love to do karaoke. I eat way too much spicy food. I hug trees and pat stone lions for luck. I talk to myself way too much when I’m working on a story.
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October 25, 2019
3.5 stars for this Tor online freebie story, available here. Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature:
A stranger shows up at the door of a gay couple, Anwar and Joe, who’d just gotten married the day before, and presents them with Berkley, a black cat with white marks. He tells them that Berkley will bring them nine years of good luck if they adopt him. And he does! Anwar’s microbrew business grows, Joe’s news reporting career goes well, and their relationship stays solid.
At the end of the nine years, another man shows up at their doorstep with a fluffy calico cat, Patricia. Anwar and Joe rename her Clover, because of a pattern of spots on her back. Life starts to get interesting.
The blurb for this story on Tor’s website says “Answering the question asked by innumerable readers of the author’s novel All the Birds in the Sky: what happened to Patricia’s cat?” ― which does seem somewhat likely to limit the readership for this story. In the novel, Patricia, one of the main characters, is a young witch with a cat (Berkley) that she inadvertently abandoned when she went away to school. The circumstances are explained more fully in “Clover.”
My rating for this short story would probably be higher if I had read All the Birds in the Sky, but it works reasonably well as a stand-alone story. Charlie Jane Anders made the trouble in Joe and Anwar’s relationship and the injured feelings of Berkley almost tangible. Cat lovers should enjoy this one.
A stranger shows up at the door of a gay couple, Anwar and Joe, who’d just gotten married the day before, and presents them with Berkley, a black cat with white marks. He tells them that Berkley will bring them nine years of good luck if they adopt him. And he does! Anwar’s microbrew business grows, Joe’s news reporting career goes well, and their relationship stays solid.
At the end of the nine years, another man shows up at their doorstep with a fluffy calico cat, Patricia. Anwar and Joe rename her Clover, because of a pattern of spots on her back. Life starts to get interesting.
Berkley had worked for years to get Anwar and Joe’s apartment under control, and this represented both a creative enterprise and a labor of love. He had carved out cozy beds atop the laundry hamper, inside the old wicker basket that contained extra brewing supplies, and in the hutch where Joe kept his beloved death-metal concert shirts. Berkley knew exactly where the sunbeam came through the slanty front windows in the mornings, and the best hiding places for when Anwar brought out the terrifying vacuum-cleaner monster …But now this new cat has invaded his territory. She’s a maniac and Berkley resents her deeply. There are also some bumps in the road with Joe and Anwar’s relationship, and some business problems for both of them. The good luck seems to have disappeared. And then one day Clover speaks to Anwar in English, asking for help.
The blurb for this story on Tor’s website says “Answering the question asked by innumerable readers of the author’s novel All the Birds in the Sky: what happened to Patricia’s cat?” ― which does seem somewhat likely to limit the readership for this story. In the novel, Patricia, one of the main characters, is a young witch with a cat (Berkley) that she inadvertently abandoned when she went away to school. The circumstances are explained more fully in “Clover.”
My rating for this short story would probably be higher if I had read All the Birds in the Sky, but it works reasonably well as a stand-alone story. Charlie Jane Anders made the trouble in Joe and Anwar’s relationship and the injured feelings of Berkley almost tangible. Cat lovers should enjoy this one.
January 23, 2022
Excellent, very sweet story - apparently written to explain what happened to "Patricia's cat in the author's novel All the Birds in the Sky", which I have not read. Good story, regardless!
A strange man drops a cat off to a couple in an apartment, saying it would bring them 9 years good luck... and it did! Nine years later, the same man drops off a second cat. This was a talking cat, however, and it turned out she was actually a human girl who was turned into a cat. Nine years earlier - when she was a little child - she promised that "luck-bringing cat" she'd always take care of him. Confused? Read the story and you'll understand! ... It's quite good, very short, and it's FREE! Follow this link: https://www.tor.com/2016/10/25/clover/
A strange man drops a cat off to a couple in an apartment, saying it would bring them 9 years good luck... and it did! Nine years later, the same man drops off a second cat. This was a talking cat, however, and it turned out she was actually a human girl who was turned into a cat. Nine years earlier - when she was a little child - she promised that "luck-bringing cat" she'd always take care of him. Confused? Read the story and you'll understand! ... It's quite good, very short, and it's FREE! Follow this link: https://www.tor.com/2016/10/25/clover/
October 25, 2019
This is an utterly beautiful little story, a perfectly worked gem. A mostly black cat is gifted to a young couple with the promise it will bring luck, and things seem to go well - not miraculously well, but a steady streak of progress in their respective professions. Nine years later, to the day, another cat is delivered as a companion for the first. The first cat, Berkeley, doesn't seem to take to Clover and this disruption begins to reverse the good fortune of the previous years.
Charlie Jane Anders give this a fairy tale cadence throughout, which works perfectly. The unexpected gift of cats from strange men is odd, but within the tone this is not too strange to be accepted. Perhaps it is the cats, but there are hints of Murakami and, perhaps, Charles de Lint.
The tale itself is simple, that of a couple facing the ups and downs of life together, the one from whom we get the POV questioning himself when things go awry and paralysed with fear, unable to communicate. What makes it sparkle is that handling of tone and detail; the characters are minimally but artfully sketched with small details, and is the world. This is clearly a fantasy tale - as I say, a fairy story, with strange people delivering cats that (may) grant luck and may not be cats at all - but the brushed mise en scene suggests a world that is barely tomorrow - increased displacement of refugees, violence and intolerance. Actually, as it was published in 2016, perhaps we are in that tomorrow.
The whole is filled with compassion and flair and magic. We are left with lose threads but this is fine as they are part of the richness of the tapestry, and an acceptance that not having magical, external luck is simply normal life. If that maneki neko actually was any more than a placebo after all.
I see that the story is marked as All the Birds in the Sky 1.5. I've had that on my shelf for awhile, so I think it is due a read.
Charlie Jane Anders give this a fairy tale cadence throughout, which works perfectly. The unexpected gift of cats from strange men is odd, but within the tone this is not too strange to be accepted. Perhaps it is the cats, but there are hints of Murakami and, perhaps, Charles de Lint.
The tale itself is simple, that of a couple facing the ups and downs of life together, the one from whom we get the POV questioning himself when things go awry and paralysed with fear, unable to communicate. What makes it sparkle is that handling of tone and detail; the characters are minimally but artfully sketched with small details, and is the world. This is clearly a fantasy tale - as I say, a fairy story, with strange people delivering cats that (may) grant luck and may not be cats at all - but the brushed mise en scene suggests a world that is barely tomorrow - increased displacement of refugees, violence and intolerance. Actually, as it was published in 2016, perhaps we are in that tomorrow.
The whole is filled with compassion and flair and magic. We are left with lose threads but this is fine as they are part of the richness of the tapestry, and an acceptance that not having magical, external luck is simply normal life. If that maneki neko actually was any more than a placebo after all.
I see that the story is marked as All the Birds in the Sky 1.5. I've had that on my shelf for awhile, so I think it is due a read.
November 17, 2019
Beautiful story from the writer of All the Birds in the Sky. Magic and family life are mixed with cats that are related but not in the way one would expect. Nice reading for a Sunday evening.
September 4, 2020
Absolutely loved it! Yay cats! Five stars. Tor freebie.
February 1, 2020
Did you read "All the Birds in the Sky"? Did you wonder what happened to the cat? You are not alone. Charlie Jane Anders has written a short story to tell that tale.
It is set in the same universe, though in a different city. It has a same-sex couple, who are given a cat for good luck on their wedding day. And that is all you really need to know. Why? Because, hay this is Charlie Jane, and if you enjoy her writing, then you have got to read this. If you don't, and haven't read "All the Birds in the Sky" this is still readable on one level.
I love the line that Clover, the cat says, near the end:
This is available free on the Tor website.
It is set in the same universe, though in a different city. It has a same-sex couple, who are given a cat for good luck on their wedding day. And that is all you really need to know. Why? Because, hay this is Charlie Jane, and if you enjoy her writing, then you have got to read this. If you don't, and haven't read "All the Birds in the Sky" this is still readable on one level.
I love the line that Clover, the cat says, near the end:
“So listen. I suck at giving advice. But the absence of good luck is not bad luck. It’s just . . . life.”
This is available free on the Tor website.
April 30, 2020
I keep seeing mixed reviews for All the Birds in the Sky and this pretty much convinced me that I'm likely to fall on the side of people who liked it for featuring imperfect characters.
Even if you're not planning to read the related novel, read this if you like animal POVs and/or 20/30-something relationship/existential angst.
Even if you're not planning to read the related novel, read this if you like animal POVs and/or 20/30-something relationship/existential angst.
May 24, 2019
I love cats. I thought this was a sweet little piece of ephemera...just lovely.
November 17, 2019
3 stars
So, I'm working my way through some Tor.com short stories, this one is available here, because I don't think I read enough books that aren't a good five hundred pages in length.
Ok, so I think this story would have been more enjoyable if I'd read All the Birds in the Sky, as apparently there are some overlapping characters. This story is about a cat that brings good luck to its owners, more specifically, nine years of good luck. There's also a talking cat...
It's interesting in that kind of oddball short story way, but I wasn't particularly engrossed or drawn in.
So, I'm working my way through some Tor.com short stories, this one is available here, because I don't think I read enough books that aren't a good five hundred pages in length.
Ok, so I think this story would have been more enjoyable if I'd read All the Birds in the Sky, as apparently there are some overlapping characters. This story is about a cat that brings good luck to its owners, more specifically, nine years of good luck. There's also a talking cat...
It's interesting in that kind of oddball short story way, but I wasn't particularly engrossed or drawn in.
November 17, 2019
Cat philosophy is the most beautiful kind:
“So you climbed into a place that you cannot get out of again,” Berkley suggested. “Because there is not enough room to turn around.”
“Sort of, yeah.”
“So,” said Berkley, tail curled and ears pointed. “Don’t turn around.”
“So you climbed into a place that you cannot get out of again,” Berkley suggested. “Because there is not enough room to turn around.”
“Sort of, yeah.”
“So,” said Berkley, tail curled and ears pointed. “Don’t turn around.”
November 17, 2019
This is most certainly a must for cat lovers. I really, really enjoyed this story and it cheered me up immeasurably. Go check it out on the Tor.com website – it's a free read. I've lived with cats my entire life so this is particularly poignant.
February 7, 2017
If you read All the Birds in the Sky and wondered what happened to Patricia's cat like I did, you can find out in "Clover," a short story on Tor.com!
November 17, 2019
It's nice to finally know what happened to the cat in "All the Birds in the Sky". And this was a sweet story.
November 3, 2020
This cover deserves more stars that I'm giving this story. Let's face it. Because - wow.
November 2, 2021
Magical little Short Story <3. With Caaats!
Read it HERE for free.
Read it HERE for free.
February 7, 2017
I didn't expect much when I started reading this short. But despite not reading "All the Birds in the Sky", I enjoyed this story. This is the tell of a gay couple who gets a cat suddenly from mysterious sources, their struggles in their relationship as well as the cat's own struggle to reclaim its identity.
The author is a great story teller and she drags the reader in with her method, and makes them feel for the characters. The focus is on Anwar and Berkley and the author made me interested in each of their individual plights, which is a strong feat considering the length of the work.
The world building is once again done in a rather unorthodox way while keeping the reader guessing at what really is going on. The realistic turmoil of a relationship through its various stages and the emotions all together depicted in this short scope is quite outstanding. And using the cat to make Anwar strong enough to deal with his problems was done quite elegantly.
But despite everything positive I did feel a bit out of the loop due to now having read the book from which this short spawned. And some of the other characters felt a bit out of focus and I found it really hard to actually care for them.
This one gets 3.5 out of 5 stars from me.
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The author is a great story teller and she drags the reader in with her method, and makes them feel for the characters. The focus is on Anwar and Berkley and the author made me interested in each of their individual plights, which is a strong feat considering the length of the work.
The world building is once again done in a rather unorthodox way while keeping the reader guessing at what really is going on. The realistic turmoil of a relationship through its various stages and the emotions all together depicted in this short scope is quite outstanding. And using the cat to make Anwar strong enough to deal with his problems was done quite elegantly.
But despite everything positive I did feel a bit out of the loop due to now having read the book from which this short spawned. And some of the other characters felt a bit out of focus and I found it really hard to actually care for them.
This one gets 3.5 out of 5 stars from me.
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November 4, 2019
Book #23 for 2018
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There is a surprising amount of story packed into this short tale, and I should probably re-read All the Birds in the Sky before trying to unpack it all. The hook for me was that it let us know what happened to Patricia's cat, but it's so much more than that. Together with Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See, it provokes a great deal of thought on the topic of "What is 'luck,' really?" and I was touched by the story of the men's relationship struggles, which is unusual for me. Anyway, a great little story, even if you haven't read AtBitS. But go read AtBitS anyway.
The Legendary Book Club of Habitica's Ultimate Reading Challenge: A book by a trans or intersex author
Alphabet Soup Challenge: C
50 States Challenge: North Carolina
There is a surprising amount of story packed into this short tale, and I should probably re-read All the Birds in the Sky before trying to unpack it all. The hook for me was that it let us know what happened to Patricia's cat, but it's so much more than that. Together with Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See, it provokes a great deal of thought on the topic of "What is 'luck,' really?" and I was touched by the story of the men's relationship struggles, which is unusual for me. Anyway, a great little story, even if you haven't read AtBitS. But go read AtBitS anyway.
February 6, 2017
Read it for free on Tor.com.
The story is tied with another work from this author - All the birds in the Sky, but even though I haven't read it myself I still enjoyed it. Obviously, I didn't know the meaning behind some scenes and characters but it was a good fantasy story. I liked how the stories of Joe and Anwar, and Berkley and Patricia were woven together and overall the story was really sweet.
The story is tied with another work from this author - All the birds in the Sky, but even though I haven't read it myself I still enjoyed it. Obviously, I didn't know the meaning behind some scenes and characters but it was a good fantasy story. I liked how the stories of Joe and Anwar, and Berkley and Patricia were woven together and overall the story was really sweet.
January 26, 2020
Well, I'm relieved to know the cat was okay.
This is a cute tag to All the Birds in the Sky, but it doesn't really have much to offer as a stand-alone work. Its depiction of feline behavior is pretty top-notch, though.
This is a cute tag to All the Birds in the Sky, but it doesn't really have much to offer as a stand-alone work. Its depiction of feline behavior is pretty top-notch, though.
November 17, 2019
I was just going through some tor.com short stories and have not read All the Birds in the Sky, so I'm assuming this may have meant more if I had. But without that background and just the background of loving cats it was still a nice story with some fun cat moments.
November 17, 2019
Read this short after All the Birds in the Sky.
June 4, 2018
This was a cute little story in this universe. I hope there is a new book soon!
February 26, 2019
All the Birds in the Sky has been lost in the jungle of my kindle library for a while now so I had no idea that Clover had anything to do with it, however I suppose that means I can definitely say that it is completely enjoyable just on its own.
For me, it was an unexpectedly adorable feature to open Some of the Best from tor.com: 2016 since I usually go into their collections thinking of darker stories, but this was engaging and sweet and I'm excited to know that I can return to Anders world when I finally get round to All the Birds in the Sky 😊
It just gave me such feelgood Ghibli vibes between Victo Ngai's gorgeous cover art, slice of life domesticity, cats, and this line:
“So listen. I suck at giving advice. But the absence of good luck is not bad luck. It’s just . . . life.”
For me, it was an unexpectedly adorable feature to open Some of the Best from tor.com: 2016 since I usually go into their collections thinking of darker stories, but this was engaging and sweet and I'm excited to know that I can return to Anders world when I finally get round to All the Birds in the Sky 😊
It just gave me such feelgood Ghibli vibes between Victo Ngai's gorgeous cover art, slice of life domesticity, cats, and this line:
“So listen. I suck at giving advice. But the absence of good luck is not bad luck. It’s just . . . life.”
January 8, 2019
This is a short story that tells the side story of the cat Berkley from “All the Birds in the Sky.” He finds a great home, and later plays a small but important part in Patricia’s life. This also tells the story of Anwar and Joe, who are first lucky, and then just fine. A very nice tale, with cats, a little magic, and good people, what more does one need in a short story?
This will of course make more sense if one has read “All the Birds in the Sky” but this is not strictly required. The things from the cat’s point of view are great, Charlie Jane does a great job of putting you into their furry little minds. Anwar and Joe are a good couple, who work through some problems with their lives with help from their furry friends.
This will of course make more sense if one has read “All the Birds in the Sky” but this is not strictly required. The things from the cat’s point of view are great, Charlie Jane does a great job of putting you into their furry little minds. Anwar and Joe are a good couple, who work through some problems with their lives with help from their furry friends.
June 27, 2019
I am glad to learn that Berkley is okay. I was very mad when reading All the Birds in the Sky that we got no closure on what happened to the cat, so I was happy to find this short story.
However. It was just okay. I didn't have enough to get me connected to the human characters, so I didn't really care what happened to them. I am happy about the way Clover got out of her predicament, but really the only question this short answered was "what happened to Berkley" and even the questions raised in this short story weren't really answered.
However. It was just okay. I didn't have enough to get me connected to the human characters, so I didn't really care what happened to them. I am happy about the way Clover got out of her predicament, but really the only question this short answered was "what happened to Berkley" and even the questions raised in this short story weren't really answered.
December 9, 2016
A quick, short story to accompany the novel All the Birds in the Sky, and tie up the loose end of Patricia's cat, Berkley's, fate. "Clover" is the story of Joe and Anwar, an interracial gay couple who one day receive a knock on their door and find someone handing them a cat and telling them they'll have nine years of good luck. On the nine year anniversary of that day, another person appears and gives them ANOTHER cat... named Patricia, who they rename Clover. Shortly after her arrival, Joe and Anwar's luck starts to run out, and Berkley gets caught in the middle of it all.
This is a cute story! Would definitely recommend it if you enjoyed the novel. 4/5 stars.
This is a cute story! Would definitely recommend it if you enjoyed the novel. 4/5 stars.
December 22, 2016
This short story is set in the world of All the Birds in the Sky, and answers what I am told is the question that readers continue to ask the author: what happened to Patricia's cat? I have not read the book yet, but I enjoyed this short story quite a lot, and I now want to read it.
This is the story of a cat that brings luck to its owners, a young couple that receive it as a gift from a mysterious visitor. But the lucky cat, may not be a cat after all, and the young couple must learn to thrive, even without the magic feline luck.
This is the story of a cat that brings luck to its owners, a young couple that receive it as a gift from a mysterious visitor. But the lucky cat, may not be a cat after all, and the young couple must learn to thrive, even without the magic feline luck.
August 22, 2018
★★★☆☆ (3/5)
A selection of my favourite passages from the book
• Anwar didn’t want to live in fear, so instead, he lived in the sweet spot between paranoia and rage
• He felt ten years older outdoors than indoors
• Some time later, Anwar cried into his knees on the couch. He smelled wrong—pungent and kind of rotten, instead of like nice soap and hops. He was all shrunk inward, in the opposite of the ready-to-pounce stance that Berkley had pulled his whole body into when he’d been preparing to jump on Clover
• “So listen. I suck at giving advice. But the absence of good luck is not bad luck. It’s just … life.”
A selection of my favourite passages from the book
• Anwar didn’t want to live in fear, so instead, he lived in the sweet spot between paranoia and rage
• He felt ten years older outdoors than indoors
• Some time later, Anwar cried into his knees on the couch. He smelled wrong—pungent and kind of rotten, instead of like nice soap and hops. He was all shrunk inward, in the opposite of the ready-to-pounce stance that Berkley had pulled his whole body into when he’d been preparing to jump on Clover
• “So listen. I suck at giving advice. But the absence of good luck is not bad luck. It’s just … life.”
February 7, 2017
notes
• this is a novella for Anders' novel, "All the Birds in the Sky"—I feel that you'll probably get more out of this if you have read it
• the only enjoyable aspects of this novella were the relationship between the two main male characters, and the cats
• my favourite part was how the author focused on the development of them as a couple—the fights, the tender moments
• the story ambled along in the beginning and then suddenly sped up, which ruined it for me
• most of the time I didn't understand what was going on
• the writing was "okay", very simple
• this is a novella for Anders' novel, "All the Birds in the Sky"—I feel that you'll probably get more out of this if you have read it
• the only enjoyable aspects of this novella were the relationship between the two main male characters, and the cats
• my favourite part was how the author focused on the development of them as a couple—the fights, the tender moments
• the story ambled along in the beginning and then suddenly sped up, which ruined it for me
• most of the time I didn't understand what was going on
• the writing was "okay", very simple
December 11, 2016
I enjoyed this as I enjoyed the excellent novel 'All The Birds In The Sky', to which this could be classed as a companion story, although you don't need to have read the novel to enjoy this short story, but it helps.
The short involves Berkeley, the cat Patricia finds at the beginning of 'All The Birds In The Sky', who is given to a same sex couple as a gift.
Available as a free read at Tor.com
The short involves Berkeley, the cat Patricia finds at the beginning of 'All The Birds In The Sky', who is given to a same sex couple as a gift.
Available as a free read at Tor.com
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