Category: Arie Coleman

The Magpie Stacks Probabilities by Arie Coleman

The Magpie Stacks Probabilities by Arie Coleman (Asimov’s SF, March-April 2022) has as its narrator a female astronaut who managed to survive an accident in space by opening a hatch with an improvised tool based on a lost Allen key. The story itself takes place afterwards at her home with her wife and son. The latter has now started to secrete small items around the house; later, the narrator starts doing the same thing while musing about order and entropy.
There is no real story here, and I’m not sure what point the piece is trying to make (possibly none, it may just be a short mood piece).
* (Mediocre), 2,750 words.