Challenge 949

It’s Just Ice

In Joseph Carrabis’s Mani He: Does Tony Morelli turned Mani He converse with animal characters in a way similar to earlier stories? For example:
- Hugh Lofting, Dr. Doolittle
- George MacDonald, Lilith
- Algernon Blackwood, The Valley of the Beasts
- Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
- The Panchatantra (a Sanskrit collection of fables dating to before the 3rd century BCE)
In David Barber’s A Good Cover Story: What do the characters do to make the “cover story” not only “good” but potentially better than expected?
In Danielle R. Morrison’s The Cost of a Carnation: Do you think that Quinn treats Maia fairly?
In John W. Steele’s The Nettle Man: What is the narrator’s role in the crime? Does Daryl receive a proper measure of poetic justice?
In Gary Clifton’s Necessity’s Burden:
1. What crime does Percy seem to have committed and escaped from by going to Uncle Wilbur’s place in Tennessee?
2. Why does Mama caution Percy against going to the Baxters? What do they have against her and her two sons?
3. How does the dialect sound when read by text-to-speech software?
In Mike Acker’s Encroachment: Might the consequences of death be surprising for all living things or only for humans?