A review over at Diabolical Plots of my Daily Science Fiction story, "This Always Happens Here," is generally pretty positive; the reviewer calls it a "good thought piece" with a "Rod Serling feel," a "pretty good metaphor for the facade of reality," all of which I'm certainly happy to hear. However he also mentions that there are some "alternative lifestyle undertones in this story that may turn some people off." The alternative lifestyle referred to is, like many of my other stories, that of men being gay, mostly incidentally as it were, which is how I perceive it in the real world, too: an incidental part of someone's identity. The fact that it might turn some people off is, I suppose, a sad reality that must be faced, but nonetheless the fact that the reviewer felt the need to "warn" potential readers is definitely off-putting.
Ah, well. If alternative lifestyle undertones don't turn you off, you can read the story online here.
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