Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers
by Alyssa Wong
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Yes, the vampire genre has been done to death, but every so often we still get a twist on it that is fresh & original. Here we are given a tale of love and predation among Asian women in present-day New York City. (Bret Easton Ellis meets Amy Tan? ;-) I also think this would appeal to fans of Tanith Lee).
I liked the nuanced treatment of relationships between the characters, and the idea that a vampire might be irrevocably affected by the person whose essence they consume.
Wong is definitely an author I'll be keeping my eye out for in the future.
I liked the nuanced treatment of relationships between the characters, and the idea that a vampire might be irrevocably affected by the person whose essence they consume.
Wong is definitely an author I'll be keeping my eye out for in the future.
Yes, the vampire genre has been done to death, but every so often we still get a twist on it that is fresh & original. Here we are given a tale of love and predation among Asian women in present-day New York City. (Bret Easton Ellis meets Amy Tan? ;-) I also think this would appeal to fans of Tanith Lee).
I liked the nuanced treatment of relationships between the characters, and the idea that a vampire might be irrevocably affected by the person whose essence they consume.
Wong is definitely an author I'll be keeping my eye out for in the future.
I liked the nuanced treatment of relationships between the characters, and the idea that a vampire might be irrevocably affected by the person whose essence they consume.
Wong is definitely an author I'll be keeping my eye out for in the future.
Nebula Award winning short story about a woman with an insatiable appitite for violent thoughs. A few comments on this story can be found here.
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Alyssa Wong is the author of Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers which won a 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Her other short stories include A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (Tor.com, March 2016), Santos de Sampaguitas (Nightmare Magazine, October 2014), Scarecrow (Tor.com, September 2014), The Fisher Queen (The show more Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2014). She also writes creative nonfiction, comics and poetry. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers
- Original publication date
- 2015-10
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA
- First words
- As my date—Harvey? Harvard?—brags about his alma mater and Manhattan penthouse, I take a bite of overpriced kale and watch his ugly thoughts swirl overhead.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)How could I ever forget her? How could I forget her taste, her scent, something as awful and beautiful as home?
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- This story first appeared in the October, 2015 issue of Nightmare magazine.
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