SheilaDeeth
"Pleasing short story with angels? Angelic mystery anyway."
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HYM and HUR
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This contemporary tale manages to do so much. It gives us the feeling of a long lasting (albeit strange) love relationship, a young couple whose first kiss was shared New Year's eve 1904. It gives us an interesting portrait of overly self-protective … see full wiki
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Pleasing short story with angels? Angelic mystery anyway.
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Jun 25, 2012
- by SheilaDeeth
- posted in Friends and Fans of Fantasy
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A thoroughly enjoyable short story, Phillip Frey’s Hym and Hur has pleasingly thought-provoking humor, combining a delightful premise with thoroughly enjoyable execution. The author’s light touch with matters of heaven and hell blends perfectly with the innocent mood of his oddly ancient protagonists, Hym and Hur, as they plan their next curious prank.
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The human protagonists are pleasing too as their perils stretch before them, but the reader’s eyes are kept firmly fixed on the mystical—how will Hym and Hur get everyone out of the mess their foolish tricks have created?
An odd misused word can easily be forgiven in such a short pleasing piece. The grown-up fairy-tale feel of the writing is thoroughly enjoyable and the story wends its way to an appropriate conclusion without ever devolving into analysis of what’s going on. I hope I might meet Hym and Hur in more pranking short stories some day.
Disclosure: I received a free ecopy of this story from the author in exchange for my honest review.
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