Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes...

Francis DiClemente

Francis lives in Syracuse, New York. He has won an Emmy Award as a filmmaker, and his stage play has been produced by a regional theatre in Las Vegas. He has published six poetry collections.

“Hippocampus Forgets” will amuse and disconcert readers at the same time. Hippocampus is a hippopotamus who has a special problem with her hippocampus. The memory circuit in her brain continually forgets about her fourth child, Corpe, and causes her to neglect him. When Hippocampus transforms into a human suburbanite mother and visits a therapist, she discovers that a premonitory dream was so violent that it has unaccountably caused her to forget its warning. The story has a few elements of the classic fable, but the wordplay on “hippopotamus” and “hippocampus” turns the genre inside out.

Francis DiClemente’s bio sketch can be found here.

Welcome to Bewildering Stories, Francis. We’re glad to have you with us!