A Better Way of Saying by Sarah Pinsker
My rating: 4/5 cats
Some of the films are gone now, disintegrated or burned, lost to time. You know some of my lines, even if you don’t know they’re mine, and other than those I’ve admitted to here, you don’t know which they are. I met the writers of many of them over the years, and even they didn’t seem to realize a change had been made. Myself, I’ve forgotten more than I remember.
it’s hollywood magic(al realism), as pinsker backstories-with-fiction the apparently factual silent movie-era story about the time that little-steven-prototype douglas fairbanks
accidentally shot a furrier with a two-foot-long arrow whilst goofin’-with-weaponry on the roof of the ritz-carlton in 1922.
a short, engaging story about unacknowledged creative contributions and unsung heroism, recounted by a refreshingly modest narrator just trying to make things better; improving movies, saving a life—just another day in hollywood.
Mainly, I wanted to say that I briefly knew magic, real magic if small, and just once I got to use it to do a small, real, good thing in the world. Or at least I tell myself so.
SHORT REVIEW FOR A SHORT STORY
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https://www.tor.com/2021/11/10/a-bett…
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