Jukebox Gifts by Dean Wesley Smith
Aug. 13th, 2010 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mabfanI mentioned this on Twitter and Facebook yesterday, but I wanted to make sure to note it here as well.
Writer Dean Wesley Smith routinely posts stories of his on his website for free for a period of two weeks, and at the moment he's offering Jukebox Gifts, which first appeared in the January 1994 F&SF. It's a wonderful, sentimental story, that moved me deeply when I first read it, and I highly recommend it to all.
That said, having now re-read it sixteen years after I first saw it, I find that I react somewhat differently to the choices the characters make in the story. I don't want to give away any spoilers, but back then, I still had my mom around, and I wasn't a father. My perspective on the story has changed a lot because of who I am now.
If anyone wishes to discuss the story after reading it, I'm game. So be warned, that there may well be spoilers in the comments.
Writer Dean Wesley Smith routinely posts stories of his on his website for free for a period of two weeks, and at the moment he's offering Jukebox Gifts, which first appeared in the January 1994 F&SF. It's a wonderful, sentimental story, that moved me deeply when I first read it, and I highly recommend it to all.
That said, having now re-read it sixteen years after I first saw it, I find that I react somewhat differently to the choices the characters make in the story. I don't want to give away any spoilers, but back then, I still had my mom around, and I wasn't a father. My perspective on the story has changed a lot because of who I am now.
If anyone wishes to discuss the story after reading it, I'm game. So be warned, that there may well be spoilers in the comments.
