Not to mention that it sets up the repeated motif of establishing an image with one set of preconceived notions and then immediately providing detail that undermines them. Defying the literary standards at such a fundamental level can produce remarkable, memorable work; I’m reminded of Tom Godwin’s “the Cold Equations”, for instance, or Elizabeth Hand’s “the Maiden Flight of McCauley’s [i]Bellerophon[/i]”. whatever its an alright story. My soul would feel light because I’d know that you and I had made something new in the world and at the same time revived something very old. Learn How to get free kindle Kids books directly from Amazon at http://AReadingPlace.com/dinosaurs. I found the beginning of the poem in the same vein (if not derivative) of a children’s book titled “I Love You Stinky Face”. It is sad. We’ve been hearing a story from somebody who, we now know, is a really and truly decent person to the important people in her life, and something is not right. 1 comment. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Tragic sad, not pathetic sad. if you do please take my others, … there is no science central to this prose that holds this thing up, and without the science as a backbone it ain’t science fiction. Some kind of small animal. This is a comment about a comment about yet another comment. Funny, Sarcastic, Blunt bitch quotes that will make you laugh! Yes, a dinosaur is a unique and a “new” biological organism (depending on it’s inception to this story), but this story hardly depends on this new creature. They are ready to learn that there were many different kinds of dinosaurs; that some dinosaurs ate plants while others were meat eaters; and they are ready to learn a little about what the di… He gulped it up and asked where the bathroom is. Just go. I don’t like what Dostoyevsky’s stories say either. Let’s talk about that elided frame story for a moment. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. and even then it does not qualify as science fiction but as fantasy. Your flow was effortless and smooth. Apex Magazine is a genre zine that focuses on dark and spectacular science fiction, fantasy, and horror. I first read this story when it was nominated for a Hugo. It’s a story about a woman telling herself a science fiction story. You’d harmonize with me, your rough, vibrating voice a strange counterpoint to mine. What I think I would eat, what kind of dinosaur I would be, and what part of the world I think I would live in, etc. Biased. ... Their teeth were thick from side to side. Reading stories like this discourage me from pursuing my own interest as a writer. You, like Triceratops, have a big head. If you were a dinosaur, you'd be a gorgesaurus. I have a few issues with this poem, two specifically. People are still angry about “Equations” over fifty years later, and it took me over a year to properly understand what Hand was doing with “Flight”. Wanting to protect and defend somebody like that is admirable. Your eyes would gaze gently from beneath your bony brow-ridge. No. I’ve come back to this story at least ten times since it was published. I’d promise never to do something like that again. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. In fact, it’s not the T-Rex who goes on, in hypothetical if/then-land, to instigate violence, but his zookeeper partner who leads him to the enemies. Share Previous Next. It’s an extremely popular lullaby, and by subconsciously triggering associations with it, Swirsky is immediately lulling her readers, as it were, and invoking a sense of deep, unwavering love. this is not science fiction. From any genre. The title could be altered to “If you were a man with a gun” or “If you had four other friends at the bar last night” and the main idea of “if her fiance were a more intimidating and violent force” would remain the same. This so perfectly tells the story of Reginald Denny. 270 comments. That being said, I did enjoy the sudden gut-punch of the trauma at the bar, and some of the hypotheticals, in the beginning, were interesting to explore. Clearly SciFi has evolved into the same pointless dross as modern art – a minimum amount of effort on the part of the artist looking for the maximum return. What would you eat if you were on an island by yourself? Thanks. Controversy followed shortly thereafter, and the controversy blew up a little bit when the nominations came out. Wow…. Archived. . Close. That wasn’t a review, it was Twitter snark. If you sang unrequited love songs, I’d take you on tour. Doubting Rich, just out of curiosity, how do you know what universities the other commenters attended? It is difficult to assess the diversity of dinosaurs due to gaps in the fossil record. You’d be a creature of courage and strength but also gentleness. lots of fun, silly & even useful things to do when you just happen to find a dinosaur laying around the house. share. Of course. Just wanted to say, “Well done.”. And great right brain/left brain imagination — the science was strong. I’m asking since you said that your university was better than theirs. It is a work of art, it shows excellent mastery of the writer’s craft, and I commend you, Ms Swirsky, for your accomplishment. The story structure stumbles after this, breaking, for the first time, into a discussion of the real here and now instead of the implications of a world where her love is a dinosaur. This is handy because, as we’ve noted in other structurally interesting pieces, the story is short and having the structure do some of the work keeps that from being a handicap. Still, the idea that non-avian dinosaurs were uniformly gigantic is a misconception based in part on preservation bias, as large, sturdy bones are more likely to last until they are fossilized. They’d grasp each other for comfort instead of seizing the pool cues with which they beat you, calling you a fag, a towel-head, a shemale, a sissy, a spic, every epithet they could think of, regardless of whether it had anything to do with you or not, shouting and shouting as you slid to the floor in the slick of your own blood. Nearly perfect, I’d say. but a hugo and nebula award nomination? Congratulations on your Hugo nomination. It establishes the structure of the story as a series of If/then statements. share. Why? Issue content is made available for free on this website via piecemeal over the two months between issues. This is a question that city banks have started to pose to budding candidates at interview. I suppose we can expect that from works of writing. If you were a dinosaur, you'd be a gorgesaurus. Audiences would weep at the melancholic beauty of your singing. The girl, still in pajamas, bounces on her bed—where a toy green dinosaur sits—and finally decides, she wants “a pet much bigger, more the size of, well, A HOUSE!” If I Had a Dinosaur celebrates childhood and children’s imaginations and creativity. My legs would be pale stems, my hair delicate pistils. Terrific story. For those of you who say that the narrator is disturbed – perhaps that’s supposed to be the point? You’d be a small one, only five feet, ten inches, the same height as human-you. 1. If you were a dinosaur, which one would you be? You’d be a small one, only five feet, ten inches, the same height as human-you. This is very, very well-written. And that, coming from me, is the highest praise I can bestow. A T-Rex would bare its fangs and they would cower. A T-Rex, even a small one, would never have to stand against five blustering men soaked in gin and malice. Write on. Paleontologists would mine ancient fossils for traces of collagen. “If you give a mouse a cookie” was more riveting and had the added advantage of having beautifully rendered pictures that catered to my apparently slavish tastes in literature. Also, there’s no cash prize involved, just the block of lucite. Sort by. I’m glad, though, that it was a short short story. Sarah Hoyt (a far better writer) was quite right about this nasty, childish little tale. Thanks and congratulations on your award. The woman has a vivid premonition that the man has raped her and hooked her child on crack. Poetry masquerading as fiction. wow. Rachel Swirsky, Congratulations on winning the Nebula. A Kids video book about dinosaur. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Pulling the child by the shirt collar, she crosses the street and ducks into a grocery. Rachel Swirsky‘s “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” started getting award buzz almost the moment it came out. OMG. Congratulations to Apex and to Rachel Swirsky for the effing HUGO NOMINATION for this piece! A dinosaur is one of the animals and the creativity between the two is about the same. So, of course, Swirsky undermines us again, and chastises us for that very thing. Dinosaur Pick Up Lines Here you will find funny, silly and hilarious dinosaur pick up lines for teens and adults. This copy kindly provided by NetGalley on behalf of the publishers. You have given us a moving, quirky, poetic, heart-wrenching, loving story. Reading it again now, I have no problem seeing it as speculative fiction, and I agree with BaguetteDuSorcier’s comment. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be … Maybe you might not find it sad, and someone else might agree with you, but we all have different perspectives of the world and how we see things on a daily basis. This does not deserve to be called the best short story the field can produce. Can you take a moment to appreciate the forest before rebuking a single shrub? Up ahead she sees a black man walking toward her. Sara ErnstImagine. Really? Secondly, I’m having a hard time properly categorizing this as science fiction. I was thinking that it is like The Runaway Bunny for grown-ups! If we lived in a world of magic where anything was possible, then you would be a dinosaur, my love. If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky is a second person POV story that works really well. Editors Note: This is the winning entry of our 2020 Holiday Horrors Flash Fiction Contest. I couldn’t read past the first two sentenses. By the way, I am a graduate of an older, better-known university than any of those commenting here attended, ironically in Earth Sciences which includes palaeobiology, but one who has worked with and made friends of more working men and women than academics or writers. This is your “Danger, Will Robinson,” moment, but you probably don’t notice on your first time through because you’re a little in love, and you’re sad, and the if/then logic of the story is relentless and carries you on even as the warning signals start. But don’t panic. Hugo Award finalist, Nebula Award winner, World Fantasy Award finalist, Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™, A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of…, each thing i show you is a piece of my death, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the…, Bonus 2021 International Fantasists Issue, https://apex-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/apex01.mp3. In a bid to gauge a reaction from potential new hires, employers have started to turn to the types of bizarre questions – traditionally associated with the academic interviews of Oxford and Cambridge. That was rubbish as well. This is SciFi? The only bigotry I ever see is from the educated people, especially the socialists. The funny thing is that if you change those five blustering gin-soaked pool players into demographic profiles more reflective of who is relatively most likely to beat someone senseless…. The worst kind of story I can think of. Take my quiz to find out. Beautiful and haunting. 99% Upvoted. this is a fever dream of a woman who has issues. When you couldn’t sleep, I’d sing you lullabies. Wander.℗ 1349682 Records DKReleased on: 2019-07-19Auto-generated by YouTube. Neither science fiction NOR a story. Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from Apex Magazine. You see, the outdated idea that dinosaurs were slow was partly due to the notion that they were likely cold blooded like modern reptiles. meh, it’s derivative of Rachel Swirsky, and your imagery isn’t SFnal enough. ( Log Out /  “That wasn’t a review, it was Twitter snark.”. If you were a dinosaur, my love, then you would be a T-Rex. But both of those are undeniably SF. hide. I’m melancholy tonight, too much prose in my life. I remember thinking it was beautifully written, but I struggled wtih seeing it as SF. It was quite beautifully done. We applaud her. Funny how that works — how whether revenge-murder porn is just that, or Art, or something worse, depends chiefly on whose gory death is being fantasized. The biggest pig went to the market and asked for the largest soda. 5. Whereas you—fragile, lovely, human you—must rely on wits and charm. ( Log Out /  Drivel. !” response to violence, followed by realizing the ethical impact of such. That might not necessarily have been the case, though. Wow, such bigotry in a story. save. Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from Apex Magazine. I’d watch as you decanted their lives—the flood of red; the spill of glistening, coiled things—and I’d laugh, laugh, laugh. nonsense. This yarn is not drek. The map — available here — lets you input your hometown (or any city you want) to see where it was in the world millions of years ago. I also love that the people who are decrying this as ignorant are showing their own ignorance in their assumptions. Exactly, Such a great love story. I’m so happy to get something more–something richer for my mind–out of this story now. 12K likes. yeah, i agree that this isn’t actually sci-fi. ….then this story stops being funny at all, and starts being hate speech. Near the end, you have the *childish* “I’M GONNA KILL THEM!!! Feel. Then, the middle pig went to the market and asked for the largest soda. Congratulations on your win! I suppose the world should at least be thankful for that. Enjoy. A gentle lure before a hard squeeze on the heart. it’s an interesting story but, as another commenter pointed out, it’s science fiction fiction; the real story is the narrator’s, which is firmly grounded in reality. Then I read your comments and I’m like “Lord save me from your followers.” If You Were A Dinosaur DID NOT win the Hugo. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Reader, Rachel Swirsky just stabbed you in the guts by breaking a pattern. I never cease to be amazed by this story. Please go away. It’s childish. None of the naysayers seems capable of coherent thought, much less quality writing. What we know about him is that he’s relatively short, gentle, loved by a woman we love, fragile, lovely, and in possession of wits and charm. you’re a twisted person. If You Were A Dinosaur You Would Be A Bitch-A-Whoreous. She’s emotionally shattered, after all. Thank you for such strong and beautiful imagery. Lacking in theme, character arc and denouement. "Right over there," says the store clerk. What it does in this case is create a relationship between the narrator and the reader. Has anyone on this comment board ever actually read SciFi? Thank you for inspiring me. This might be my polyamorous heart talking, but if you don’t love the narrator, just a little bit, by that line, I question either your reading comprehension or your capacity for human sentiment. That implies that working class normal people are drunks,play pool and are bigots. This young woman has never actually spoken to a black person, let alone had any meaningful interaction. My mistake. Synopsis. From my throat, bees would drink exotic nectars. -If I were a dinosaur-Hello. I’d trust in your teeth and talons to keep you/me/us safe now and forever from the scratch of chalk on pool cues, and the scuff of the nurses’ shoes in the hospital corridor, and the stuttering of my broken heart. You have been shivved by a master. 76.8k Likes, 166 Comments - Eric Ochoa (@supereeego) on Instagram: “Her: Babe make me laugh for this picture Me: If you were a dinosaur you’d be a Preggosaurus …” You should have won the hugo award for this odd but powerful and touching piece. I’d avert my eyes from the newspapers when they showed photographs of the men’s tearful widows and fatherless children, just as they must avert their eyes from the newspapers that show my face. New issues are released every two months. And because those with a damaged empathy never fail to reveal themselves when they read it. And all dinosaurs laid eggs. There are two kinds of people; those who go over the wall, and those who stay behind. It establishes the structure of the story as a series of If/then statements. I loved every word of this. This lesson is the second of a two-part series on dinosaurs. I’d bring you raw chickens and live goats. If you were a dinosaur, my love, then you would be a T-Rex. One of those stories that leave me wishing I had written it. hide. Her compassion here is relentless, but it’s also a bit of her downfall, because it breaks her out of the safe space of her fantasy. Not only is the emperor nude, but this “story” stinks! Riveting and beautiful…I could not stop reading. ! This is not speculative fiction, as hard as it tries to make us think so. When I read it, I wondered if it was based on a real incident. Linda Stegall. Green chiffon would turn into leaves. Let me say that again. For example, if you traveled back to the dinosaur age, or it traveled to you in some kind of scientific disaster, you might find yourself running from a duplex-sized reptile. I’d stare at the two of you standing together by the altar and I’d love you even more than I do now. She’s happy, but her heart is breaking, and this is her fantasy. Maybe if the woman imagined that the man was an alien who would abduct her? If everyone else thought about my stories the way I feel about yours, I would be so ashamed. A magnificent story. View More. And suddenly 2020 makes perfect sense, as a long game to make sure Biden doesn't get better optics on his inaugurat…. For anybody who missed the brouhaha, the high level (and very charitable) rendering of the argument is that the people who read the story and went “OMG, Rachel Swirsky, you just broke my heart,” got into a fight with people who looked at the story and went, “Uh, that’s not speculative.”  I have opinions about the respective camps, but they’re not pertinent here, so I’ll ignore them. However, these are hypotheticals I’ve already read before, and though they are made more interesting by the implementation of a dinosaur as a character: I do not personally believe the existence of a dinosaur in a story to be a legitimate enough reason for it to be categorically science fiction. Story telling with a scalpel. 100% Upvoted. He’d have the power and ferocity of a dinosaur, not to do violence, but to avoid it. It is well deserved! I think I’ve found it. He can roll all he likes, so long as he stays there. I feel like the childishness of it is intentional. Still, they would see you. Geneticists would figure out how to build a dinosaur from nothing by discovering exactly what DNA sequences code everything about a creature, from the size of its pupils to what enables a brain to contemplate a sunset. Chicago Il, 60623 It’s like our little canary in a coal mine, giving us a fair warning. No one has found evidence of dinosaurs giving live birth — and, just like some birds today, dinosaurs laid clutches of multiple eggs. If you were a T-Rex, then I would become a zookeeper so that I could spend all my time with you. Your nostrils would flare as you inhaled the night and then, with the suddenness of a predator, you’d strike. I would totally go for a cow or something! I don’t mean to speak for him, but the meaning I took is that if the antagonists in this story were minorities from an urban area, the reaction would be very different. Every time I read Correia or Torgersen I am inspired and revved up. See whole one liner: Girl, if you were a dinosaur, you'd be a at Onelinefun.com Search in the largest collection of one liners and puns All one liners Choose by topic For special events New one liners Thank you. I’d pull out a hydrangea the shade of the sky and press it against my heart and my heart would beat like a flower. None has ever so much as commented negatively upon my education except in positive terms, nor on anyone else’s skin colour or background. The quality of the negative replies tells you everything you need to know about the merits of the story. Since students at this level are not yet able to comprehend the concept of extinction, these lessons focus on ideas that serve as a foundation for later learning about extinction. And a well written and entirely correct one. The existence of stories you don’t like discourages you from being a writer? It is magnificently beautiful. I’m a “working class” woman. Assuming. I’d stare at the two of you standing together by the altar and I’d love you even more than I do now. You’d be fragile-boned and you’d walk with as delicate and polite a gait as you could manage on massive talons. I would be borrowed, too, because I’d be borrowing your happiness. The answer will surprise you, and you will probably wonder why you were never told before. It’s not as bad as the detractors say it is, but it’s a blatant Mary-Sue revenge fantasy. level 1. just now. I just followed Murderbot, so that's starting the week with good life choices. Still, I’d know that it was for the best that you marry another creature like yourself, one that shares your body and bone and genetic template. In other words, thoroughly likable. Here, that’s not really the case: the distancing effect of metafiction leaves us, ultimately, in Stein’s Oakland. far away. Hate speech against whom?! Here’s where we start to get the explicit explanation of what the missing frame story would tell us, and it’s done through the technique introduced in the first sentence of establishing a set of expectations and then thwarting them. How could it win an award? USA. Seriously? In said book, a mother consoles her child through several hypotheticals where her son is some sort of animal/creature. It is told in the conditional tense, but that doesn’t ban it from the genre–if anything, that heightens its “speculative” tone. report. If I Were A Dinosaur. I would astonish everyone assembled, the biologists and the paleontologists and the geneticists, the reporters and the rubberneckers and the music aficionados, all those people who—deceived by the helix-and-fossil trappings of cloned dinosaurs-- believed that they lived in a science fictional world when really they lived in a world of magic where anything was possible. There were also many Natural catastrophes that helped our planet to become what it is today. You really should. Very well-written and moving. The massive dinosaur would chase you, and chances are, it would catch up to you. Because this hypothetical fantasy? All I can say is, I wish I’d written it. Simple. Your eyes … The person telling us an SF story is not Rachel Swirsky, it is the unnamed fiancee of the brutalized paleontologist. Nebula Award Winner and, thus far, Hugo Award Nominee. Something horrible happened, yet the author managed to decouple the event (through poor choice of the kids’ poetry device) from its horror, and the perpetrators (through tired stereotype) from the visceral feeling you should have for them. You could have a big head because you just got pouf'ed at the hairdresser, or because that cute barista smiled at you at Starbucks, or because you finally remembered to wear your Viking helmet to that regional sales meeting. Safe. This may have helped at some subliminal level. Of the three most common pets, she likes dogs, has a cat, and a fish is simply too wet! I’d bloom. I would stretch joyfully toward the sun. If you would like to learn more about Gallimimus you can take a look at these websites. I’d watch the gore shining on your teeth. Wow – It’s If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, only for grown-ups. Surprising, touching and wonderful. save. (The preceding records, Dinosaur, You're Living All Over Me and Bug, were reissued last year by Merge.) This is 100% a speculative fiction story. I was all smiles until you wrung tears from me. As a paleontologist lies in a coma, his fiancée tells him how things would be different if he were a Tyrannosaurus rex. Here's a look at If you're a dinosaur, a sesame street parody. I hope you enjoy my quiz. The fact that YOU THINK it won a Hugo says a lot about your ability to contribute to this discussion. I was reading so much because I wanted to find out what made a story worthy of a Nebula. I am weeping. What is meaningful to students at this level is exploration of the dinosaur world that once existed. I didn’t know I was thirsting for poetry until I read your story. best. Review: If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love. ( Log Out /  The paleontologist’s fiancée who waits by the bedside of a man who will probably never wake. how in the hell did this ever get nominated let alone win anything? This is an opening line that does a ton of heavy lifting. "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" is a short story by American writer Rachel Swirsky. I’m not sure what the negative commenters are seeing when they picture “five blustering men soaked in gin and malice” who beat up an apparently fragile-looking palentologist but I suspect it’s got more to do with their own preconceptions and with whom in the story they are identifying than what the words say. Her short fiction has been published in a number of magazines and anthologies, including. 2.8k. Her compassion for the families of the people who nearly killed her fiancé is so relentless that it interrupts the coping mechanism she’s using to deal with that same tragedy. After reading this story and the comments I await the child proclaiming that the emperor has no clothes. If I laughed, laughed, laughed, I’d eventually feel guilty. 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