Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Story Recommendation: "Deep Moves" by William Highsmith

Abyss and Apex has a story I particularly liked this month by William Highsmith. I tried to give this one a critique before it was published, but I enjoyed it so much that I really just enjoyed it the way it is. It's a quick read, chock full of emotion and story, and it's also free! I hope you enjoy and let me know what you think. :)
,Dave

http://www.abyssandapex.com/200904-deep.html

4 comments:

rreugen said...

Read it, it was a fun story.
The ending didn't feel satisfying to me, though.

Juliette Wade said...

I enjoyed it. I felt disoriented in it at certain points, but I thought the ending was kind of fun. Normally I don't like what I perceive to be "trick" endings, but this one was quite plausible. I wish I'd had a little more sense of the personality of the main character.

Anonymous said...

Hey, David. Allen Dunne is a chess master who writes a column for the U.S. Chess Federation. He is their Director of Correspondence Chess. (Deep space chess definitely falls into that category.) He included a link to the story in his June newsletter ("The Link is in the Mail") on the U.S. Chess Federation web site.
http://main.uschess.org/content/view/7527/393/
http://uschess.org/cc/dunne/dunnejune09.pdf

There's a real-life Earth/Space match going on now:
http://www.uschess.org/content/blogcategory/198/475/
You can vote online for the next move to help Earth beat astronaut Greg Chamitoff :)

William Highsmith

David Steffen said...

Cool! Thanks for the link!