Short stories online: 'Taken He Cannot Be', Will Shetterley

[tamaranth]

Found a link to this in the comments to one of coffeeem's posts about Territory, which is delicious. [edit My review, pretty much spoiler-free, is over here.]

'Taken He Cannot Be'

Comments

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm puzzled. I've read that story quite recently, and if it wasn't you that linked to it, I have no idea who it was!

Oh well. One of life's little mysteries. There are many bigger ones to deal with - such as why I didn't place a shopping order in time for this week.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Not me*! But could've been someone else who reads coffeeem.

*for values of 'not me!' including 'I don't think it was me, you know how it is, brain like one of those things you put veg in -- no not the bin -- no not swisstone -- no not a tin -- anyway, fairly sure I hadn't read this before and it wasn't in my storylinks tag but then I might have forgotten to tag it ...'