Challenge 940

Sins, Just Dessert

1. In Christopher DeRosa’s The Nadir of the Labyrinth:

   1. What is the dramatic advantage in not emphasizing that the initial narrator is Princess Elena?
   2. What elements are borrowed from the legend of Daedalus’ labyrinth even though the artificial structure itself is absent in the story?

2. In Amita Basu’s The Why and the How:

   1. In what way do the dogs act like human beings? And under what social conditions?
   2. To what extent can we say that the dogs are not anthropomorphized?

3. In Miriam E. Neiberg’s An Unexpected Find:

   1. Where doe the narrator live? In what other country does the “queen” live in a cave?
   2. How else might the story conclude?

4. In Leonore Wilson’s Where Sins Go:

   1. How old might Stan be? Why does he accede so readily to his father’s wishes?
   2. What is the function of snakes in the cult’s worship services? Why not use pigs, for example?
   3. Where does the story take place? Anywhere in particular?

Responses welcome!

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