{"id":2804,"date":"2022-02-14T17:27:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2022-03-29T17:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:59:28","slug":"the-magpie-stacks-probabilities-by-arie-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=2804","title":{"rendered":"The Magpie Stacks Probabilities by Arie Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The Magpie Stacks Probabilities<\/em><\/strong> by Arie Coleman (<em>Asimov\u2019s SF<\/em>, 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.<br>There is no real story here, and I\u2019m not sure what point the piece is trying to make (possibly none, it may just be a short mood piece).<br>* (Mediocre), 2,750 words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magpie Stacks Probabilities by Arie Coleman (Asimov\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[695],"tags":[21,539,696,4,12,697],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arie-coleman","tag-21","tag-539","tag-arie-coleman","tag-asimovs-sf","tag-short-story","tag-space-accident"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}