I got a freebie from GUD magazine. GUD stands for Greatest Uncommon Denominator, “a print/pdf magazine with two hundred pages of literary and genre fiction, poetry, art, and articles”.
I love freebies – don’t we all.
In this case the freebie was a story, “Baby Edward”, and it was weird.
I like weird. The baby is kipt locked up in a VW Bus in the yard, but he’s growing – and carnivorous. And the narrator’s girlfriend wants a picnic in the yard, near the bus. Of course she doesn’t know about Edward. How do you start to explain a thing like that to your girlfriend?
This sounds odd, but it’s hard to say whether I enjoyed the story. Certainly I never got the urge to get out an editing pen – you wouldn’t expect that at GUD anyway. I didn’t have any strong feelings about it either way. Only I can’t forget it.
I suppose that makes it good.
