Comments on: Friday Flash: Daddy in the Stone

By: Denni

Denni — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:10:42 +0000

This is really well-written and touching!

I thought the protagonist was a little boy too (and I’m female). The setting was quite obvious, but then I’ve been around cemeteries not so long ago.

Yeah, I often wished I had recordings of deceased relatives and friends, then think better of it. Morbid is the word–they live on best in our memories.

By: Penny

Penny — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:24:44 +0000

And I definitely read it as a little girl. Hm are we imposing our own gender here?

I really liked the exploration that this technology might impede recovery.

And maybe I’m Morbid but the setup was obvious to me from the first paragraph. The story seemed a good natural extrapolation from those European graveyards that have photos of the dead, which I always find disconcerting.

A while ago a friend commented that he had only one recording of his (recently deceased) mother’s voice and I realised that audio recordings had never occurred to me. And I’m not sure I would want them…

By: GLP

GLP — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:58:48 +0000

Odd… I assumed it was a little boy, too.

By: ShaunCG

ShaunCG — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:26 +0000

That’s a great piece, & I like the way that these technologically advanced graveyards are steadily revealed. The voice of the narrator is really well-judged.

By: Gareth D Jones

Gareth D Jones — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:56:41 +0000

Oddly I assumed it was a little boy. I don’t spot any clues as to gender, so I guess you project your own POV.