The worlds were interesting - the plants, the Hive, the ocean steampunk world! - but the glimpses of them were too brief, yielding page time to the relationship struggles of Ava and Jules, who, in addition to being coworkers have also broken up a few days ago and are torn up about that despite the relationship appearing to have been a bit unhealthy. It tried on all those hats, but sadly there was no room in a story this short to adequately develop all of them, and the focus should have been tighter - and, at least in my preference, centered on the weirdness on the other ends of the wormholes. It almost seems that the story couldn’t quite figure out what it wants to be - a parallel universes adventure story, a relationship drama or a capitalism/consumerism critique. I loved the premise and the beginning, but the rest was a bit underwhelming. “Seriously? We find a wrinkle in time and you tell the manager?” After all, they have watched the training video, haven’t they? If you like what I do, please consider supporting me via Patreon or Paypal.“We’re here to tell you what to do if a wormhole opens up on your shift!”Honestly, wormholes into parallel universes may be the most rational explanation of the terrifying geography- and logic-defying stupor-inducing maze that is IKEA layout.Īnd yes, it makes corporate sense to send two low-paid lowest-seniority employees on a mission to rescue a missing elderly customer - a mission through a wormhole, armed with a GPS-type gadget. Want to know more? Here are my fiction and nonfiction bibliographies, and hiring info for teaching and editing work. They are represented by DongWon Song of the Howard Morhaim Agency.
They also write a sporadic newsletter, COOL STORY, BRO, about narrative storytelling and how cool it is. Nino’s YA horror debut, Burned and Buried, will be published by Holt Young Readers in 2024. Their novella Finna - about queer heartbreak, working retail, and wormholes - was published by Tor.com in 2020, and its sequel Defekt was released in April 2021. Nino’s 2019 story collection Homesick won the Dzanc Short Fiction Collection Prize and was chosen as one of the top ten books on the ALA’s Over the Rainbow Reading List.
One time, an angry person on the internet called Nino a verbal terrorist, which was pretty funny. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer and worked as a stagehand, bookseller, bike mechanic, and labor organizer. A graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and University of Kansas’s MFA, Nino’s fiction has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, Lambda, Nebula, and Hugo Awards. Nino Cipri is a queer and trans/nonbinary writer, editor, and educator.
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