The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary by Kij Johnson (Summary) - Writing Atlas

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The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary

By Kij Johnson, first published in Clarkesworld

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

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4,100

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Contemporary Fantasy

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Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy

Plot Summary

In alphabetical order, the entries in this bestiary of imaginary creatures take us through vignettes that at their heart are more about the glimpses they afford of various lives and relationships - starting, failing, ended, gone - standing in as metaphors for all kinds of love.

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