![]() ![]() Other stories are eerie fantasies that cast familiar feelings and struggles in a new light. ![]() It is at once horrifying and more poignant than expected. ![]() “Twenty Hours” is about a husband who, thanks to the misuse of a new invention, can murder and resurrect his wife whenever he needs a break from her. Some of the stories speculate about how future advancements could impact evergreen, even mundane problems. It then moves through gripping, sometimes disturbing tales about characters whose lives are changed-usually for the worse-by bizarre incidents. The collection opens with “Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867,” a gut-punch about a person who longs to see their dead mother one last time through a reality simulator, the moral implications of which are not well understood. Each story takes a common issue-mental illness, unhealthy relationships, the shunning of those who are different-and turns it into an extraordinary ordeal from which each person emerges forever altered. Everyone on Earth loses their sense of taste, causing a strange rift between a mother and daughter. Neighborhood children obsess over the accidental deaths of a family no one liked. Puberty takes a fantastical turn for a group of teenage girls. The incredible merges with the everyday in Kim Fu’s short story collection Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century ![]()
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