{"id":3100,"date":"2022-03-10T13:31:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T13:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2022-03-11T16:43:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:43:55","slug":"synthetic-perennial-by-vivianni-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic Perennial by Vivianni Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Synthetic Perennial<\/em><\/strong><sup>1<\/sup> by Vivianni Glass (Tor.com, 22<sup>nd<\/sup> February 2022) has K\u2019Mori, the narrator, restrained in a hospital after undergoing surgery. We soon learn that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I am the first person in modern history to have ever been scientifically resurrected. Excuse me: revitalized. \u201cResurrection\u201d is a religious and political minefield. I don\u2019t understand the specifics of the procedures; I just know that I have four different people\u2019s organs in me, and my new pancreas allows me to proudly say that I am a cyborg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A kind nurse, Lillian, arrives later and, the next day, she puts K\u2019Mori in a wheelchair and they roam about the hospital. During this excursion Lillian asks K\u2019mori if she is going to reply to a boy who has contacted her; we also get a dribble of backstory. At the end of their walk, they see K\u2019Mori\u2019s \u201cfollowers\u201d on the streets outside the hospital.<br>The rest of the story (spoiler) sees K\u2019Mori dream about her cousin Kenny, who brings her something in a box and tells her that they won\u2019t let her go. K\u2019Mori awakes from this to discover (I think) that she is having a medical emergency during an attack on the hospital.<br>This is a fragmentary piece that is little more than a set-up and climax. There is no real plot, or development or examination of the story\u2019s gimmick.<br>* (Mediocre). 4,750 words. Story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2022\/02\/22\/synthetic-perennial-vivianni-glass\/\">link<\/a>.<br><br>1. This placed third in the \u201cLeVar Burton Reads writing contest, as co-presented by FIYAH Literary Magazine and Tor.com!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthetic Perennial1 by Vivianni Glass (Tor.com, 22nd February 2022) has K\u2019Mori, the narrator, restrained in a hospital after undergoing surgery. We soon learn that: I am the first person in modern history to have ever been scientifically resurrected. Excuse me: revitalized. \u201cResurrection\u201d is a religious and political minefield. I don\u2019t understand the specifics of 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":[755],"tags":[21,539,758,757,12,116,756],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vivianni-glass","tag-21","tag-539","tag-cyborg","tag-resurrection","tag-short-story","tag-tor-com","tag-vivianni-glass"],"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\/3100","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=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}